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.
If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.
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