| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | situation nearly as interesting as |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| - Sam Abell | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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