| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| situation nearly as interesting as | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
| Allard | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| You just have to care about what's around you | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | be made. - Sam Abell |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | 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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