| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| | those that you are going to make. |
| | That's life! - John Sexton |
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