| 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 |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| Stieglitz | |
| | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | One should really use the camera as though |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | - Dorothea Lange |
| Adams | |
| | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | |
| You just have to care about what's around you | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | 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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