| Now to consult the rules of composition before | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| 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 |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | 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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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| those that you are going to make. | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| That's life! - John Sexton | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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