Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes.

Bill Jay's Popular Quotes

Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers.

- Bill Jay

'I am a camera' but it is a discontinued model.

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Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

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Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

- Bill Jay

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

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If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

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The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.

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Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

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But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph you…

- Bill Jay