| It is not the language of painters but the | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | those that you are going to make. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | That's life! - John Sexton |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| - Aaron Siskind | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | One should really use the camera as though |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| | - Dorothea Lange |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| Adams | 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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