| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | it's like a disease. - Anon |
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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| situation nearly as interesting as | Lange |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
| Allard | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| One should really use the camera as though | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| - Dorothea Lange | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| 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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