| Now to consult the rules of composition before | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Weston |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | 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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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| situation nearly as interesting as | those that you are going to make. |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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