| It is not the language of painters but the | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | You just have to care about what's around you |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | more you realize what can be photographed |
| Lange | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
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