| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| has to transform the photographer into an | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | - Aaron Siskind |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| 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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| Photography is about finding out what can | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| edges around some facts, you change those | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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