| I think you have to have a real point of view | One should really use the camera as though |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Dorothea Lange |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| | Weston |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | 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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| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | more you realize what can be photographed |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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