| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| has to transform the photographer into an | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | |
| - Sam Abell | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| 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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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography is about finding out what can |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | edges around some facts, you change those |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| | those that you are going to make. |
| | That's life! - John Sexton |
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