Asking Quote by Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward.…

— Larry Clark

I can frame with the best of them - at least my version of framing - but to build the emotion of a scene…

— RaMell Ross

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

Framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant, you're more…

— James Surowiecki

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

— Annie Leibovitz

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes,…

— Brandon Sanderson

I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation…

— Michael Shannon

“I often don’t have a clear idea of what I am going to be drawing when I start, unless it is for a very…

— Alan Lee

I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor…

— Philip Pearlstein

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

— Edward Weston

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

— Dan Colen

My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that…

— Walter Murch