| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| Weston | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | Adams |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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