| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| - Aaron Siskind | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| It is not the language of painters but the | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| Rowell | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| 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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