| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | Lange |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| Rowell | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | those that you are going to make. |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| You just have to care about what's around you | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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