| It is not the language of painters but the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| be made. - Sam Abell | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| | - Sam Abell |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | 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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