| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| those that you are going to make. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| That's life! - John Sexton | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | It is not the language of painters but the |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| would be slowed down by painting or | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | Adams |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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