| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| You just have to care about what's around you | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | Weston |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| be made. - Sam Abell | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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