| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | Photography is about finding out what can |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | edges around some facts, you change those |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
| | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | those that you are going to make. |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| 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 |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| | - Vincent Van Gogh |
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