| One should really use the camera as though | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
| | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | You just have to care about what's around you |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | world about you, and trust to your own |
| | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | - Ansel Adams |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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