| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | It is not the language of painters but the |
| has to transform the photographer into an | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | be made. - Sam Abell |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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