Edward Abbey
[Writer and Environmental Activist, b. 1927, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States, d. 1989, Tucson, Arizona, United States.]
Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.
Bill Jay
[Photographer, writer, and curator, b. 1940, Maidenhead, England, d. 2009, Samara, Costa Rica.]
Style is not like a filter which when placed over the lens will affect the image… When I walk through the forest at night, the track emerges from the darkness by not looking for it. A unique style emerges in photography by ignoring it, concentrating on the subject...
God (Judeo-Christian Version)
[Omnipotent artist, critic, creator and destroyer, before time, lives everywhere and nowhere.]
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or likeness of any thing that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them; nor serve them...
(Judeo-Christian version of God; Exodus 20:4)
Graham Greene
[Writer, b. 1904, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, d. 1991, Vevey, Switzerland.]
The less you know the better. You have forgotten memories. What you forget becomes the compost of the imagination. Renounce photography.
Robert Rauschenberg
[Artist, b. 1925, Port Arthur, Texas, d. 2008, Captiva Island, Florida.]
I don’t want a picture to look like something it isn’t. I want it to look like something it is.
Ernst Haas
[Photographer, b. 1921, Vienna, Austria, d. 1986, New York City.]
Don’t take pictures. Be taken by your pictures.
Christian Boltanski
[Artist, b. 1944, Paris, lives in Paris.]
I don’t want viewers to discover; I want them to recognize.
Vincent Van Gogh
[Artist, b. 1853, Zundert, Netherlands, d. 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France.]
A feeling for things in themselves is much more important than a sense of the pictorial.
(An aphorism adopted by photographer Edward Weston.)
