| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | more you realize what can be photographed |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
| | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| communicate more powerfully than either | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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