| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| more you realize what can be photographed | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | |
| | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | those that you are going to make. |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | That's life! - John Sexton |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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