The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography.
Interpretation
Success in photography depends more on skill and creativity than on expensive equipment.
In this quote, Chase Jarvis emphasizes that the tools and gear you use are not the primary factors that lead to success in photography. Rather, it is one's ability to envision and create captivating images that matters most; relying too heavily on equipment can cloud this fundamental truth.
In practice
In a photography workshop, to inspire students about creativity over equipment.
It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up until the recent history, permission was required for us to be able to share work at any sort of scale. We had to get permission from galleries, from ad agencies or photo editors to be able to have our work out there. And now anybody with access to a computer can show their work in 200 countries around the world.
Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.
Let the path be open to talent.
The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.
I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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