| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | You just have to care about what's around you |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| - Aaron Siskind | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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