| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | communicate more powerfully than either |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| would be slowed down by painting or | |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| 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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