| Now to consult the rules of composition before | One should really use the camera as though |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | - Dorothea Lange |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| - Aaron Siskind | - Sam Abell |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Photography is about finding out what can |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | |
| You just have to care about what's around you | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | communicate more powerfully than either |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | - Edward Steichen |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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