| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| would be slowed down by painting or | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
| | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | - Edward Steichen |
| 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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| It is not the language of painters but the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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