| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| has to transform the photographer into an | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| 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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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | those that you are going to make. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | That's life! - John Sexton |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| It is not the language of painters but the | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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