| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| those that you are going to make. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| That's life! - John Sexton | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | more you realize what can be photographed |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| Rowell | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | It is not the language of painters but the |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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