| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| has to transform the photographer into an | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Photography is about finding out what can |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | edges around some facts, you change those |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| You just have to care about what's around you | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | It is not the language of painters but the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| more you realize what can be photographed | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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