| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | |
| would be slowed down by painting or | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | 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 | |
| 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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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| It is not the language of painters but the | |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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