| 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 |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| Weston | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| Photography is about finding out what can | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | |
| edges around some facts, you change those | |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
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