| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | 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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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | those that you are going to make. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | That's life! - John Sexton |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | 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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