| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| situation nearly as interesting as | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
| Allard | It is not the language of painters but the |
| | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | - Edward Steichen |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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