| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| Weston | Adams |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| has to transform the photographer into an | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
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