| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| has to transform the photographer into an | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | more you realize what can be photographed |
| would be slowed down by painting or | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | those that you are going to make. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | That's life! - John Sexton |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| It is not the language of painters but the | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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