| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
| | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| 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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| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | Weston |
| Stieglitz | |
| | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | - Sam Abell |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | 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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