| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| has to transform the photographer into an | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | Adams |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | situation nearly as interesting as |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | Allard |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | be made. - Sam Abell |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | |
| - Edward Steichen | |
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