| It is not the language of painters but the | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | Weston |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Adams | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | |
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