| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | - Aaron Siskind |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| more you realize what can be photographed | be made. - Sam Abell |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Photography is about finding out what can |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | edges around some facts, you change those |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| would be slowed down by painting or | |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | - Edward Steichen |
| 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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