| It is not the language of painters but the | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | 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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| ...words and pictures can work together to | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| communicate more powerfully than either | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | |
| 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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