| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | |
| | It is not the language of painters but the |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| - Edward Steichen | |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| has to transform the photographer into an | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| One should really use the camera as though | |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| - Dorothea Lange | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | more you realize what can be photographed |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| Weston | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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