Before Quote by Edward Weston

“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”

— Edward Weston

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a…

— Edward Weston

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

— Andre Kertesz

For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up…

— Larry Clark

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

— Edmundo Desnoes

There are rules about perception, but not about photography.

— Jay Maisel

The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead…

— Edward Weston

“I've always felt that the formal structure of a photo, its composition, was just as important as tje subject itself... You have to eliminate…

— Brassaï

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

— Edward Weston

And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may…

— Paul Strand

“A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequisite of my understanding of human…

— Eudora Welty