| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | - Edward Steichen |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
| | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | those that you are going to make. |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | That's life! - John Sexton |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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| One should really use the camera as though | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| - Dorothea Lange | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| | Adams |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| Rowell | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| | Allard |
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