| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| You just have to care about what's around you | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | - Aaron Siskind |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| has to transform the photographer into an | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| 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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