| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | it's like a disease. - Anon |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| Weston | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | be made. - Sam Abell |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| 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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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | more you realize what can be photographed |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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