| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| be made. - Sam Abell | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| communicate more powerfully than either | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | |
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