| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | It is not the language of painters but the |
| has to transform the photographer into an | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| - Sam Abell | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| | Adams |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | |
| communicate more powerfully than either | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
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