| No place is boring, if you've had a good | It is not the language of painters but the |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | world about you, and trust to your own |
| more you realize what can be photographed | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | has to transform the photographer into an |
| edges around some facts, you change those | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| communicate more powerfully than either | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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