| One should really use the camera as though | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
| | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | more you realize what can be photographed |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | those that you are going to make. |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | That's life! - John Sexton |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| be made. - Sam Abell | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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