| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | It is not the language of painters but the |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | |
| 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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