| Now to consult the rules of composition before | One should really use the camera as though |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | - Dorothea Lange |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| | - Sam Abell |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| Lange | 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 | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | communicate more powerfully than either |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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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 |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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