| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| has to transform the photographer into an | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | be made. - Sam Abell |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | It is not the language of painters but the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | communicate more powerfully than either |
| You just have to care about what's around you | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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