| One should really use the camera as though | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| - Dorothea Lange | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | It is not the language of painters but the |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | |
| | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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