| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| Adams | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| 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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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Weston |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | One should really use the camera as though |
| | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | - Dorothea Lange |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | has to transform the photographer into an |
| - Aaron Siskind | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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