Unlike a child in a totally urban environment, my friends and peer group were not only other children, but also wild and domesticated animals, plants…

- Freeman Patterson

If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?

- Freeman Patterson

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and …

- Freeman Patterson

A photographer who wants to see....must recognize the value of the familiar. Your ability to see is not increased by the distance you put between you…

- Freeman Patterson

Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with …

- Freeman Patterson

Creation and creativity are inextricably linked.

- Freeman Patterson

There is a close connection between art and religion in the sense that both are concerned about questions of meaning - if not about the meaning of ex…

- Freeman Patterson

Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new

- Freeman Patterson

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

- Freeman Patterson