| Now to consult the rules of composition before | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| It is not the language of painters but the | |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | those that you are going to make. |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | That's life! - John Sexton |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | |
| would be slowed down by painting or | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
| | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | |
| has to transform the photographer into an | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | 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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