| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
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