| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| - Aaron Siskind | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | more you realize what can be photographed |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | would be slowed down by painting or |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| those that you are going to make. | has to transform the photographer into an |
| That's life! - John Sexton | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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