"Quotes"

[cosmicexplosion]

A pen or sword Are simple tools.

[Tony Karnezis]

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
- Dorothea Lange

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.
- AA

Never forget that all the great photographs in history were made with more primitive camera equipment than you currently own.
- Brooks Jensen

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.
- Ruth Bernhard

Take the damn picture already.
- Many of my friends, while I take a picture.

[Winger]

Not directly photographic, but it applies - "Not all those who wander are lost." - J. R. R. Tolkien (letter from Gandalf to Frodo in The Fellowship of the Ring)

[David R Munson]

That Tolkien quote has been one of the most comforting things in my adult life. Granted, for much of that time I've definitely felt lost, but the urge to wander is a much bigger thing than that.

[Heroique]

What’s wrong with being lost? ;^)

Dante gets lost in the very first line of The Divine Comedy.

Then he needs Virgil to get around, and later Beatrice.

That doesn’t stop him from being the best wanderer of all.

[Tony Karnezis]

One of my favorite quotes regarding my profession and hobbies.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

[dsphotog]

Not directly photographic, but it applies - "Not all those who wander are lost." - J. R. R. Tolkien (letter from Gandalf to Frodo in The Fellowship of the Ring)

It doesn't matter how you get there, if you don't know where you're going.
-The Flying Karamazov Brothers

[andrew gardiner]

'Everyone knows the usefulness of the useful. But not everyone knows the usefulness of the useless.' — Chuang-Tzu

[sun of sand]

From Todd-Zakia, Photographic Sensitometry...

I am often drawn to this sentence in the chapter on Variability and Process Control, so I'll quote it...

"When we say that there is 'no' difference between sheets of film from the same box, we really mean that the differences that do exist are so small that they are not important to us".

I like that quote. You must have stated it elsewhere on this site
wow how many quotes threads do we have

anyway
enlarge those sheets of film to something grander and you can see that while the "differences" are still seemingly small and insignificant they are now huge when confronted

stand atop the waves in a boat and look down
water
maybe a fish
stand in a boat in the middle of the ocean on increasinlgy larger waves
water
maybe a fish

but there are whales down there you just cant see because you wont go

[Kirk Gittings]

see below.