| One should really use the camera as though | It is not the language of painters but the |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| - Dorothea Lange | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | Lange |
| 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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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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