| Memory is very important, the memory of | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | more you realize what can be photographed |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| 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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| One should really use the camera as though | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| - Dorothea Lange | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Stieglitz |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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