| 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 | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | Rowell |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
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| Photography is a major force in explaining | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| - Edward Steichen | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | 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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