Category Archives: Quotes

“A thing is not what you say it is or what you pho­to­graph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, pho­tographs, paint­ings, and sculp­tures are sym­bols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves.” –Continue reading ““A thing is not ….””

“Put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.” – Dorothea Lange

99.9% of images taken in the world – I was there, this is what I saw Less then .1% – I was there, this is what I experienced I was there, this is how I felt about what I saw. I am here, this is my experience, this is how I feel about what IContinue reading “Some random thoughts…..”

“…honesty is not a gift, endowed by a native naivete, nor a matter of style, or politics, or philosophy. …it is a reward bestowed for bravery in the face of the truth.”

“Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph” – Andre Kertesz

“We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, ………” – Aung San Suu Kyi

“There’s a lot of talk how making photographs has become so much harder given the state of things, given there are cameras everywhere. But then, if you are complaining about that – doesn’t that show the limitations of your own creativity? What can you photograph when every picture has already been taken? Well – isn’tContinue reading “Conscientious Extended….”

“Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.” – Robert Adams – “Beauty in Photography” 1996