| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | One should really use the camera as though |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | - Dorothea Lange |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | be made. - Sam Abell |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | |
| - Edward Steichen | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| Photography is about finding out what can | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| edges around some facts, you change those | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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