| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Photography is about finding out what can |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | edges around some facts, you change those |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | 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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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| Weston | |
| | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| 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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