“It’s helpful to turn those voices down so you can hear the chimes of the cosmic clock ring, reminding you it’s time. Your time to participate.” ― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” ― Robert Henri
“I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.”
― Marcel Duchamp
“A camera teaches you how to see without a camera. Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” ― Dorothea Lange
I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways. ― Duane Michals
“The more important a call or action to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.” ― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
“The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.” ― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” ― Oscar Wilde
“There are fairy tales to be written for the grown-ups.” ― André Breton
“It is part of the photographer’s job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.”
― Bill Brandt
“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
― Ernst Haas
“The act of creation is an attempt to enter a mysterious realm. A longing to transcend. What we create allows us to share glimpses of an inner landscape, one that is beyond our understanding. Art is our portal to the unseen world.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”
― Ansel Adams
“Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.”
― Ansel Adams
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.”
― Ansel Adams
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