| It is not the language of painters but the | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| Stieglitz | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| Adams | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | - Edward Steichen |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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