| Now to consult the rules of composition before | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | has to transform the photographer into an |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | would be slowed down by painting or |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| - Aaron Siskind | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | those that you are going to make. |
| | That's life! - John Sexton |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| situation nearly as interesting as | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| Allard | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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