| It is not the language of painters but the | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | - Sam Abell |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| | has to transform the photographer into an |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Stieglitz | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | 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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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| - Edward Steichen | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | Adams |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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