| Photography records the gamut of feelings | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | Weston |
| - Edward Steichen | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | - Aaron Siskind |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| | world about you, and trust to your own |
| | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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