| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| Weston | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| would be slowed down by painting or | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | - Aaron Siskind |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | those that you are going to make. |
| | That's life! - John Sexton |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| Adams | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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