| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | One should really use the camera as though |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| - Aaron Siskind | - Dorothea Lange |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Weston |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | 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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