| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| would be slowed down by painting or | more you realize what can be photographed |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| those that you are going to make. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | world about you, and trust to your own |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | - Ansel Adams |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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