| It is not the language of painters but the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | communicate more powerfully than either |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| more you realize what can be photographed | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | |
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