| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | situation nearly as interesting as |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| has to transform the photographer into an | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | |
| - Sam Abell | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| | communicate more powerfully than either |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
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