Photo Quotes Archive

"Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors."

"The creative process leads us to discover something fundamental about ourselves. It often becomes a kind of flow, provoking us to an effort to redefine ourselves as photographers. In some special moments, in this mindless and almost desperate search for ultimate intensity, time suddenly becomes meaningless and seems to stand still, and this so-dynamic flow mutates into a bloodless hunt for our own identity."

" …the practical pragmatics of being an art maker is that you also have to be engaged in society, in life, and in the day to day to day affairs that all the non-art makers of society are engaged in. The challenge of being an art maker is not the challenge of configuring your life for escape. The challenge is configuring your life so that it can include the everyday affairs of everyday life and the time, the discipline, and the necessities of being an artist."

"That the reasons why we create are a lot more difficult to plumb versus the reasons how we create. But I have always felt that in art making, why we make something is much more important and much more of interest than how we did it."

"Don't let the medium that your using determine how you see. Let how you see determine how you use the medium."

"We often can work best--photographically, creatively, visually--when we work with what we are surrounded with, what we are immersed in. ... Look at what's around us everyday, because there may be the seeds of wonderful artwork right in front of us."

"Creativity is a very difficult thing; it consumes a lot of energy and takes a great deal of focus. It's not easy to be creative. But, my experience is that it is infinitely compounded when life around you ... is complicating the issue by making it more difficult to work. ... My creativity is enhanced to the extent that I'm organized. ... It just makes the process of being creative easier because then all of that creativity can blossom in that nice clean slate that starts with organization."