| Photography is about finding out what can | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| edges around some facts, you change those | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
| | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | 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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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| world about you, and trust to your own | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| - Ansel Adams | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | |
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