| I think you have to have a real point of view | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | be made. - Sam Abell |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | world about you, and trust to your own |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| - Sam Abell | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Allard |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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