| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| would be slowed down by painting or | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| has to transform the photographer into an | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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