| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| Weston | |
| | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | situation nearly as interesting as |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | Allard |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | |
| world about you, and trust to your own | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | those that you are going to make. |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | That's life! - John Sexton |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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