| No place is boring, if you've had a good | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | - Sam Abell |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| Adams | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| You just have to care about what's around you | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| It is not the language of painters but the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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