| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | world about you, and trust to your own |
| | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | - Ansel Adams |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | It is not the language of painters but the |
| | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | - Edward Steichen |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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