| 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 |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| more you realize what can be photographed | Weston |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | 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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| It is not the language of painters but the | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | - Edward Steichen |
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| Photography takes an instant out of time, | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| Lange | |
| | Photography is about finding out what can |
| | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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