| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | - Sam Abell |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| | Weston |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | 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 a way of feeling, of touching, | Photography is about finding out what can |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | edges around some facts, you change those |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
| | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | 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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