| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| would be slowed down by painting or | You just have to care about what's around you |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| It is not the language of painters but the | - Edward Steichen |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | 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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