| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| has to transform the photographer into an | Stieglitz |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | It is not the language of painters but the |
| | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | - Edward Steichen |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| Adams | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography is about finding out what can |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | edges around some facts, you change those |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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