| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | It is not the language of painters but the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| more you realize what can be photographed | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| You just have to care about what's around you | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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