| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| | would be slowed down by painting or |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | 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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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | it's like a disease. - Anon |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| You just have to care about what's around you | Lange |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| | world about you, and trust to your own |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| more you realize what can be photographed | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | - Ansel Adams |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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