| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | 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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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | - Edward Steichen |
| Rowell | |
| | Photography is about finding out what can |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | edges around some facts, you change those |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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