| One should really use the camera as though | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| - Dorothea Lange | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Adams |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| be made. - Sam Abell | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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