| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | Stieglitz |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| more you realize what can be photographed | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | One should really use the camera as though |
| communicate more powerfully than either | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | - Dorothea Lange |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| those that you are going to make. | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| That's life! - John Sexton | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | has to transform the photographer into an |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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