| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | more you realize what can be photographed |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| | - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| Lange | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
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