| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | world about you, and trust to your own |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| Weston | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | - Ansel Adams |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | It is not the language of painters but the |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography is about finding out what can |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | edges around some facts, you change those |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | |
| situation nearly as interesting as | |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
| Allard | |
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