| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| those that you are going to make. | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| That's life! - John Sexton | 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 | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| - Aaron Siskind | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | 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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