| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | has to transform the photographer into an |
| You just have to care about what's around you | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
| | One should really use the camera as though |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | - Dorothea Lange |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| more you realize what can be photographed | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | 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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| It is not the language of painters but the | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | those that you are going to make. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | That's life! - John Sexton |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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