| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | |
| would be slowed down by painting or | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | more you realize what can be photographed |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| 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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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| those that you are going to make. | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| That's life! - John Sexton | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | be made. - Sam Abell |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | Lange |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| 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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