| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | It is not the language of painters but the |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| Adams | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| - Edward Steichen | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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