| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Weston |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
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