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• Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going…
• The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
• My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
• If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
• Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.
• I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of…
• My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to…
• Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just…
• I see no reason for recording the obvious.
• The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for…
• Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious…
• To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

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