| 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 |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | 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 good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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