| Now to consult the rules of composition before | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| | situation nearly as interesting as |
| It is not the language of painters but the | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | Allard |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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| One should really use the camera as though | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| - Dorothea Lange | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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