| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| has to transform the photographer into an | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| | those that you are going to make. |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | That's life! - John Sexton |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | more you realize what can be photographed |
| be made. - Sam Abell | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| Lange | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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