| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| You just have to care about what's around you | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | Weston |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| 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 is a major force in explaining |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| - Aaron Siskind | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | - Edward Steichen |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| be made. - Sam Abell | 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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