| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | You just have to care about what's around you |
| Weston | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| 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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| I think you have to have a real point of view | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | It is not the language of painters but the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
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