| Now to consult the rules of composition before | One should really use the camera as though |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | - Dorothea Lange |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | - Edward Steichen |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| situation nearly as interesting as | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| Allard | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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