| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| Weston | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| | - Aaron Siskind |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | be made. - Sam Abell |
| 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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| I think you have to have a real point of view | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | You just have to care about what's around you |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
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