| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| | would be slowed down by painting or |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| edges around some facts, you change those | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | 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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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | You just have to care about what's around you |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| be made. - Sam Abell | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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