| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | has to transform the photographer into an |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | 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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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | world about you, and trust to your own |
| | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| communicate more powerfully than either | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | - Ansel Adams |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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