Occupation: Writer Birth: August 12, 1940 Death: 2009
I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside..
If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph..
Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you..
I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then th….
Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices.
If you are bored with your own photography you are really bored with what you are photographing, so pick a new subject about which you are knowledgea….
Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis..
If it is not an interesting picture when in focus, it is not going to be a better picture out of focus..
A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living..
Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world from which they….
...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffe….
At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later..
True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists..
Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful..
I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . ..
My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph..
Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard..
'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye closes,….
If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of other people wh….
Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese..
Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up..