| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | Stieglitz |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| has to transform the photographer into an | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| - Sam Abell | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| 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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