The Job Of The Photographer, In My

Why Do Most Great Pictures Look Uncontrived? Why Do Photographers Bother With The Deception, Especially Since It So Often Requires The Hardest Work Of All? The Answer Is, I Think, That The Deception Is Necessary If The Goal Of Art Is To Be Reached: Only Pictures That Look As If They Had Been Easily Made Can Convincingly Suggest That Beauty Is Commonplace.

Part Of The Difficulty In Trying To Be Both An Artist And A Businessperson Is This: You Make A Picture Because You Have Seen Something Beyond Price; Then You Are To Turn And Assign To Your Record Of It A Cash Value. If The Selling Is Not Necessarily A Contradiction Of The Truth In The Picture, It Is So Close To Being A Contradiction—and The Truth Is Always In Shades Of Gray-that You Are Worn Down By The Threat.

Philosophy Can Forsake Too Easily The Details Of Experience… Many Writers And Painters Have Demonstrated That Thinking Long About What Art Is Or Ought To Be Ruins The Power To Write Or Paint.

It's In The Silence That Your Problems Just Dissolve. Try It. It Really Works.

Nature Photography... That Acknowledges What Is Wrong, Is Admittedly Sometimes Hard To Bear - It Has To Encompass Our Mistakes. Yet In The Long Run, It Is Important; In Order To Endure Our Age Of Apocalypse, We Have To Be Reconciled Not Only To Avalanche And Hurricane, But To Ourselves.