| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | those that you are going to make. |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | That's life! - John Sexton |
| Adams | |
| | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | communicate more powerfully than either |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | 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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| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| | - Sam Abell |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | |
| world about you, and trust to your own | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | has to transform the photographer into an |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| - Ansel Adams | 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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