| Now to consult the rules of composition before | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | those that you are going to make. |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | That's life! - John Sexton |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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