| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Lange |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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