| It is not the language of painters but the | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | has to transform the photographer into an |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | 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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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| edges around some facts, you change those | You just have to care about what's around you |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| 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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