| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| - Aaron Siskind | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| would be slowed down by painting or | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
| | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | communicate more powerfully than either |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| 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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