| One should really use the camera as though | It is not the language of painters but the |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| - Dorothea Lange | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | |
| - Sam Abell | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| 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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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | Photography is about finding out what can |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | |
| | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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