| It is not the language of painters but the | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | those that you are going to make. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | That's life! - John Sexton |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | communicate more powerfully than either |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| | situation nearly as interesting as |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | Allard |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| One should really use the camera as though | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| - Dorothea Lange | 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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