| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| - Sam Abell | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | 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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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | be made. - Sam Abell |
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