| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | 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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| Memory is very important, the memory of | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| those that you are going to make. | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| That's life! - John Sexton | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| | - Aaron Siskind |
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