| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | 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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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | more you realize what can be photographed |
| be made. - Sam Abell | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| It is not the language of painters but the | |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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