| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| would be slowed down by painting or | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| | those that you are going to make. |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | That's life! - John Sexton |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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