| 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 | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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