| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | It is not the language of painters but the |
| | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| situation nearly as interesting as | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| Allard | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| One should really use the camera as though | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
| | Photography is about finding out what can |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| has to transform the photographer into an | edges around some facts, you change those |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | - Edward Steichen |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| 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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