| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| more you realize what can be photographed | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| You just have to care about what's around you | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| be made. - Sam Abell | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | Photography is about finding out what can |
| Lange | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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