| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| It is not the language of painters but the | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | - Edward Steichen |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| | You just have to care about what's around you |
| One should really use the camera as though | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | more you realize what can be photographed |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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