| Now to consult the rules of composition before | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| It is not the language of painters but the | |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | |
| | 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 |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | 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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