| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| - Aaron Siskind | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| 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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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | - Sam Abell |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | |
| - Edward Steichen | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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