The best camera is the one you have with you.
Interpretation
You should make the most of the tools you have at your disposal, rather than waiting for the perfect ones.
This quote emphasizes the importance of utilizing the resources and tools available to you at any given moment. Instead of waiting for the ideal situation or equipment, it encourages creativity and innovation with what you currently possess, suggesting that the act of creation is more important than perfection or ideal conditions.
In practice
A photographer giving a talk on adaptability in their craft may reference this quote.
You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get involved in it in a very physical way. You may find that the picture you want to do can only be made from a certain place, and you're not there, so you have to physically go there. And that participation may spur you on to work harder on the thing, . . . because in the physical change of position you start seeing a whole different relationship.
The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.
If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.'
That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.
To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.
I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that.
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