| One should really use the camera as though | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| - Dorothea Lange | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| Rowell | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| situation nearly as interesting as | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| Allard | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | It is not the language of painters but the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| more you realize what can be photographed | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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