| Photography knows how to authenticate its | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | Lange |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| | - Sam Abell |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| more you realize what can be photographed | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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