| It is not the language of painters but the | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | Adams |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | 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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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| has to transform the photographer into an | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| Weston | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
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