| Now to consult the rules of composition before | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | has to transform the photographer into an |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| be made. - Sam Abell | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | |
| You just have to care about what's around you | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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