| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| situation nearly as interesting as | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| Allard | - Edward Steichen |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| more you realize what can be photographed | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | has to transform the photographer into an |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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