| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| has to transform the photographer into an | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | those that you are going to make. |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | That's life! - John Sexton |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | |
| | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | Adams |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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