| Now to consult the rules of composition before | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Weston |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | |
| world about you, and trust to your own | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | has to transform the photographer into an |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | those that you are going to make. |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | 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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