| It is not the language of painters but the | Photography is about finding out what can |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | edges around some facts, you change those |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | - Edward Steichen |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| Rowell | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | more you realize what can be photographed |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| Weston | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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