| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | Weston |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| | has to transform the photographer into an |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | more you realize what can be photographed |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| - Edward Steichen | Adams |
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