| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| has to transform the photographer into an | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| 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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| I think you have to have a real point of view | It is not the language of painters but the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| | - Aaron Siskind |
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