| Now to consult the rules of composition before | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Weston |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | One should really use the camera as though |
| | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | - Dorothea Lange |
| Stieglitz | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | 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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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Photography is about finding out what can |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | edges around some facts, you change those |
| Adams | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | those that you are going to make. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | That's life! - John Sexton |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | 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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