| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | would be slowed down by painting or |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| | - Sam Abell |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | those that you are going to make. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | That's life! - John Sexton |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | Photography is about finding out what can |
| | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | edges around some facts, you change those |
| Stieglitz | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | - Edward Steichen |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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