"Quotes"

[Chuck P.]

"Don't think of yourself as an artist, let others think of you as an artist, what you should concentrate on is your craft."

Stephen Spielberg

[numnutz]

From many Anonymous sources

"It didn't come out"

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[Randy]

I really like this thread - nothing like a good quote.

"Mysteriously, wonderfully, I bid farewell to what goes, I greet what comes; for what comes cannot be denied, and what goes cannot be detained."
~Chaung-tzu (The Tao of Photography - Seeing Beyond Seeing - Philippe L. Gross & S. I. Shapiro)

[Ari]

"Be calm and ordinary in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

Edgard Varèse (I think)

[dsphotog]

"The camera is a license to explore".
Jerry Uelsmann

[Joe O'Hara]

A photograph is an instrument of love and revelation that must see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live in all things. - Ansel Adams, 150 Years of Photography , ISBN: 6301264258


How true.

This was from a website with quotations from many photographers, and others: http://www.photoquotes.com/

Very nice to go there and consider what others have thought.

Then we have to go out there and do it.

[Jim Graves]

"It's important to think but it's better to look. It's even better to look without thinking." Andre Kertesz

[Adrian Pybus]

I'm going to be terrible and quote myself "Perfection is a moving target."

[Doremus Scudder]

I'm going to be terrible and quote myself "Perfection is a moving target."

As long as we're quoting ourselves, here's my favorite quote of mine: "The simplest tools require the greatest skill."

Best

Doremus

[Adrian Pybus]

Doremus,

By "The simplest tools require the greatest skill." do you mean that with a simple tool it's so obvious if you've got it right but with a more complex tool you can fool others and even yourself that you know what you are doing?

Adrian