| ...words and pictures can work together to | It is not the language of painters but the |
| communicate more powerfully than either | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| those that you are going to make. | |
| That's life! - John Sexton | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | Lange |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| 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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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | has to transform the photographer into an |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| more you realize what can be photographed | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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