Mediocrity In Photography

"You see, I'm not interested in mediocrity in photography. 

I'm not interested in selling cat shit to dogs. 

I just want to do my own thing. 

If people like my work, all the better. 

If they don't, too bad." 

- Ralph Gibson

First, Sharpen Your Tools

"The craftsman, who wishes to do his work well, 

must first sharpen his tools."

- Confucius

Portraits Of Actors

"Cartier-Bresson says 

he cannot take portraits of actors 

because they pose."

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

An Enduring Record

"Photography is thus brought within reach
of every human being 
who desires to preserve a record of what he sees.

Such a photographic notebook
is an enduring record of many things

seen only once in a lifetime 
and enables the fortunate possessor

to go back by the light of his own fireside

to scenes which would otherwise
fade from memory and be lost."

- George Eastman

A Fact Of Life

"A photograph has picked up a fact of life,
and that fact will live forever."
- Raghu Rai

Trust That Little Voice

"Trust that little voice in your head that says
'Wouldn't it be interesting if...';
And then do it."
-Duane Michals

Anyone Can Take A Photograph

"In response to the quip at a dinner party
from a woman down-scaling the skill associated with making photographs:
'But Jack anyone can take a photograph'!
Picone's reply, 'Yes you are correct
but only some people can make a camera sing and dance'. "
- Jack Picone

The Moment It Was Caught

"The picture is good or not
from the moment it was caught in the camera."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

Constructing Images

"I am constructing images,
they just don't pop up on my film."
- Carl Robert Pope, Jr.

Find Another Kind Of World

"Photography can be a mirror and reflect life as it is,
but I also think it is possible to walk,
like Alice, through a looking glass
and find another kind of world with the camera."
- Tony Ray-Jones