| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | One should really use the camera as though |
| world about you, and trust to your own | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | - Dorothea Lange |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| - Ansel Adams | Weston |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| those that you are going to make. | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| That's life! - John Sexton | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | situation nearly as interesting as |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| - Edward Steichen | Allard |
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