| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | Adams |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| - Sam Abell | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| One should really use the camera as though | |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | Photography is about finding out what can |
| - Dorothea Lange | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| 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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