| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| You just have to care about what's around you | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | Rowell |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | It is not the language of painters but the |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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