| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | Lange |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| those that you are going to make. | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| That's life! - John Sexton | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| edges around some facts, you change those | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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