| One should really use the camera as though | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| - Dorothea Lange | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| has to transform the photographer into an | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | - Aaron Siskind |
| 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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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | - Edward Steichen |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| Adams | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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