| One should really use the camera as though | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
| | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | |
| - Sam Abell | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | be made. - Sam Abell |
| 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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| Memory is very important, the memory of | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
| | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| those that you are going to make. | |
| That's life! - John Sexton | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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