| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| those that you are going to make. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| That's life! - John Sexton | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | It is not the language of painters but the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| You just have to care about what's around you | - Sam Abell |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | One should really use the camera as though |
| situation nearly as interesting as | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | - Dorothea Lange |
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