| It is not the language of painters but the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | those that you are going to make. |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | That's life! - John Sexton |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | One should really use the camera as though |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | - Dorothea Lange |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| You just have to care about what's around you | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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