| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | situation nearly as interesting as |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | Allard |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | It is not the language of painters but the |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| - Sam Abell | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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