| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | those that you are going to make. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | That's life! - John Sexton |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Weston |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | would be slowed down by painting or |
| You just have to care about what's around you | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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