Harold Egerton on work and passion

“If you don’t wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you’re wasting your time. ”

Harold Egerton

on madness and photographing

“I don’t have any particular method to my madness. When I decide “what” I want to photograph, I choose the appropriate locations. Sometimes I choose “where” I want to photograph, then look for the “what” when I get there! Simple – no magic involved. I have a theory, which seems to work for me, that the best ideas come through thinking about something else! One of my hobbies is long distance running. I find there is something therapeutic and hypnotic in this activity, similar to practicing landscape photography. While thinking about one thing, and being active at the same time, other ideas float in and out. These floating ideas usually turn out to be the catalysts for my future projects.”

Michael Kenna

Reyes on art

“I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation…But this is a haunted house.”

Pedro Reyes

Chuck Close’s piece of advice

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.”

Chuck Close

what is Art?

“Art is what makes life more interesting than art.”

Robert Filliou

Einstein knew what creativity is ;)

“Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought.”

Albert Einstein

on how to be your own portfolio reviewer

Quite good 10 pieces of advice from Brooke Shade:

1. Choose which images are your favorites and which are your least favorite.

   1. In doing this, you can begin to critique your portfolio in the most obvious way: by what you simply like and don’t like! Most people will be able to, in about 5 minutes or less, identify which images of theirs they personally are more connected to versus those that they enjoy less.
   2. By doing this, the artist can begin to identify the things about those images that he or she likes and does not like. For the favorite image, write down all of the reasons why it is your favorite. For the least favorite, write down all of the reasons why you are not connected to it.
   3. By doing this, you have a good start to a list of things that identify where you want to go in your photography. You know how you want to move forward and also what did not work for you in the past.

   4. Once you understand what you believe to be your strong and weak points, it will be easier to dive into the rest of your portfolio.

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