| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| has to transform the photographer into an | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| - Sam Abell | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| 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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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Photography is about finding out what can |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | edges around some facts, you change those |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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