| It is not the language of painters but the | Photography is about finding out what can |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | edges around some facts, you change those |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| world about you, and trust to your own | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| - Sam Abell | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | more you realize what can be photographed |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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