Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself.

- Jerry Uelsmann

My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteres…

- Jerry Uelsmann

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

- Jerry Uelsmann

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

- Jerry Uelsmann

I have gradually confused photography with life.

- Jerry Uelsmann

Photography is just light remembering itself.

- Jerry Uelsmann

Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.

- Jerry Uelsmann

The camera basically is a license to explore.

- Jerry Uelsmann

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

- Jerry Uelsmann