| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | It is not the language of painters but the |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | - Aaron Siskind |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| has to transform the photographer into an | those that you are going to make. |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | That's life! - John Sexton |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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