| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| | situation nearly as interesting as |
| It is not the language of painters but the | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | Allard |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | - Edward Steichen |
| 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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