| One should really use the camera as though | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| - Dorothea Lange | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | more you realize what can be photographed |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | situation nearly as interesting as |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | Allard |
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| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| Stieglitz | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | 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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