Inspiration
I am continually inspired by a wide variety of visual art, and other photographers. Contemplating their work and vision continually alters my perceptions of my world.
“There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oops! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson“My pictures are not escapes from reality, but a contemplation of reality so I can experience life in a deeper way”
Bruce Davidson“All art is a work in progress. It’s helpful to see the piece we’re working on as an experiment. One in which we can’t predict the outcome. Whatever the result, we will receive useful information that will benefit the next experiment. If you start from the position that there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, and creativity is just free play with no rules, it’s easier to submerge yourself joyfully in the process of making things. We’re not playing to win, we’re playing to play. And ultimately, playing is fun. Perfectionism gets in the way of fun. A more skillful goal might be to find comfort in the process. To make and put out successive works with ease.”
“All that matters is the work itself. The art that actually gets made and how it’s perceived. You are you. The work is the work. Each person in the audience is themselves. Uniquely so. As artists we’re called to let go of these stories again and again and blindly put our faith in the curious energy drawing us down the path.”
“The purpose of the work is to awaken something in you first and then allow something to be awakened in others and it’s fine if they’re not the same thing. We can only hope that the magnitude of the charge we experience reverberates as powerfully for others as it does for us.”
“I don’t believe a person has a style. What a person has is a way of photographing what is inside of them. What is there comes out.”
Sebastiao Salgado“A picture is what it is, and I have never noticed that it helps to talk about them, much less volunteer information in words. It wouldn’t make sense to explain them. Kinda diminish them. people always want to know when something was taken, where it was taken and God knows why it was taken. ”
Bill Eggleston“Making a definitive declaration or meaning kills the photograph. ”
Daiado Monriyama“Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing it is the defining of observation full and felt”
Walker Evans
“The goal of art isn’t to attain perfection. The goal is to share who we are and how we see the world. Artists allow us to see what we are unable to see but somehow already know.“
“You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there. Photography is about being exquisitely present.”
Joel Meyerowitz
