| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| those that you are going to make. | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | more you realize what can be photographed |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | has to transform the photographer into an |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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