| It is not the language of painters but the | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | those that you are going to make. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | That's life! - John Sexton |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | |
| would be slowed down by painting or | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| 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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