| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Weston |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | has to transform the photographer into an |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| edges around some facts, you change those | |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | |
| | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | You just have to care about what's around you |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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