| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| has to transform the photographer into an | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| One should really use the camera as though | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
| | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| situation nearly as interesting as | |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| Allard | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| 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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