Paul Caponigro Quotes

#1. The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

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#2. The effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.

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#3. The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.

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#4. Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

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#5. Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way.

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#6. I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.

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#7. As far as my experience goes one is automatically in touch with the higher spiritual, it is connected to a certain level that interpenetrates our total physical and psychic existence. We are always in touch with it.

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#8. Seek freedom within action.

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#9. It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

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#10. I use my music to tune myself.

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#11. I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood.

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#12. All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.

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#13. I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver.

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#14. Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this mystery.

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#15. Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?

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