| I think you have to have a real point of view | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | - Aaron Siskind |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| | world about you, and trust to your own |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | One should really use the camera as though |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | - Dorothea Lange |
| Adams | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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