| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| more you realize what can be photographed | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| It is not the language of painters but the | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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