| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| - Aaron Siskind | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | has to transform the photographer into an |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | those that you are going to make. |
| You just have to care about what's around you | That's life! - John Sexton |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| more you realize what can be photographed | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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