| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| has to transform the photographer into an | world about you, and trust to your own |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | - Ansel Adams |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | 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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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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