| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| has to transform the photographer into an | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | It is not the language of painters but the |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| would be slowed down by painting or | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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