| Photography is about finding out what can | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| edges around some facts, you change those | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| 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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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| situation nearly as interesting as | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| Allard | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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