| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | - Sam Abell |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | Rowell |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| | those that you are going to make. |
| | That's life! - John Sexton |
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