| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | - Aaron Siskind |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| more you realize what can be photographed | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| has to transform the photographer into an | those that you are going to make. |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | That's life! - John Sexton |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| One should really use the camera as though | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | |
| - Dorothea Lange | Photography is about finding out what can |
| | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | edges around some facts, you change those |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| 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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