| One should really use the camera as though | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | those that you are going to make. |
| - Dorothea Lange | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| has to transform the photographer into an | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | You just have to care about what's around you |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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