| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | those that you are going to make. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | That's life! - John Sexton |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| situation nearly as interesting as | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
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