| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| world about you, and trust to your own | those that you are going to make. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | That's life! - John Sexton |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| - Aaron Siskind | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | situation nearly as interesting as |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | Allard |
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