| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | One should really use the camera as though |
| Stieglitz | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| | - Dorothea Lange |
| It is not the language of painters but the | |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | Weston |
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| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| - Aaron Siskind | 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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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | communicate more powerfully than either |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | those that you are going to make. |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | 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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