Posts tagged quote
“ My frustration with photography in general is inversely proportional to the amount of work I’m creating for myself in uncharted territory.”
“ You can dream about it or you can go out and make it happen.”
Red Bull advertisement
(Ran 5 miles today to wrap up week two of Half Marathon Training. This quote definitely applies.)
“ You don’t stop doing things because you get old. You get old because you stop doing things.”
R. Pilcher (via mylittlegentleman)
(via mylittlegentleman)
“ The fact that a thing is difficult must be for us the more reason for doing it.”
“”Q: What’s the best way to finish a project?
A: It’s just work, work, work. You can be the most gifted person in the world, but if you don’t work, you don’t have any results. So if you want to do things, then you have to do them, just for the joy of doing it, not for becoming famous, not for this, not for that.
“ … I just want to shake them and tell them to photograph whatever they want. I tell them to pretend that they have a museum in their basement. It is locked and they are the only person with a key. I tell them to close their eyes and imagine what pictures they see down there. It can be anything, just be honest. Then make those pictures.”
What I’ve Learned About Photography, Pt. One
Give me any subject, any camera, any location and I’ll look for 2 things: the right light and the right moment.
“ Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired…You’ve always got to make the mind take over and keep going.”
(via caterpillarcowboy)
“”You have to just say “Fuck it.” That’s the best advice I can give to people is to just say “Fuck it.” Just do the thing you want to do. If you want to take pictures of your balls, then take pictures of your balls. I’m serious. I know that’s not the kind of advice that Rob can probably publish, or you can write, but I really mean it. Because the world is composed of millions of people always telling you things you can’t do or shouldn’t do. There’s always a reason “why not” for everything…
I have to do the thing that I want to do. I just have to do it. And the more people tell me I shouldn’t do it, the more I want to do it. The more wrong it seems like it might be, the more I’m interested in it. So that’s the thing. People don’t do stuff because fear is immobility. So you just have to be moving at all times.
“ I often think of that rare fulfilling joy, when I am in the presence of some wonderful alignment of events. Where the light, the colour, the shapes and the balance all interlock so beautifully that I feel truly overwhelmed by the wonder of it.”
“ To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…. I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
