| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| world about you, and trust to your own | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | - Sam Abell |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| - Ansel Adams | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| It is not the language of painters but the | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| those that you are going to make. | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| That's life! - John Sexton | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| Photography is about finding out what can | You just have to care about what's around you |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| edges around some facts, you change those | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
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