| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | has to transform the photographer into an |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| You just have to care about what's around you | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | 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 | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | Stieglitz |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| | - Aaron Siskind |
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