Quote by 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

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity 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 gravitation before going for a…

— Edward Weston

“It is not until you draw something, whether it is an object, a building or an activity, that you really begin to understand it.”

— Martin Salisbury

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

“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

“Art is not an assembly of accidents. You have to master the rules before you break them.”

— M. Pierce

“Newton found the law of gravitation not in a written page, but in a falling apple.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

I may juggle the composition, as the strength of a picture is in the composition. Or I may play with the light. But I…

— George Rodger

“If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted…

— Italo Calvino

“A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make…

— James Thurber

“Knowing the rules of an art is not the same as having the habit.”

— Mortimer J. Adler