| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | Photography is about finding out what can |
| | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | edges around some facts, you change those |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| more you realize what can be photographed | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| Rowell | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| 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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