| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | situation nearly as interesting as |
| has to transform the photographer into an | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | Allard |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | those that you are going to make. |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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