| Photography is a major force in explaining | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
| | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| those that you are going to make. | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| That's life! - John Sexton | 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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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| One should really use the camera as though | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
| | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | situation nearly as interesting as |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| Weston | Allard |
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