Jerry N Uelsmann Quotes

#1. My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.

Jerry Uelsmann

#2. I have gradually confused photography with life.

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#3. If people screw me, I screw back in spades.

Donald Trump

#4. It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

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#5. The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there's a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours.

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#6. Photography is just light remembering itself.

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#7. Editions made sense when people worked with engravings where the plate wore down as prints were made. An early number of the edition had slightly better quality. But that's not the case with photography. To me, it's a false way of creating value.

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#8. Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself,

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#9. Before this trip he was my best friend ... And now, well, do you realize how hot he is? I mean like wow. When did that happen?"
"Seventh grade after he got the braces off.

Cassie Mae

#10. I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.

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#11. When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.

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#12. The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

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#13. I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.

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#14. I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.

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#15. I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

Michael Rooker

#16. The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

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#17. Let us not be afraid to allow for post-visualization. By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer to revisualize the final image at any point in the entire photographic process.

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#18. Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Fernando Pessoa

#19. My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.

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#20. I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.

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#21. It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

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#22. All knowledge is self-reflective.

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#23. That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.

Gregory Of Nyssa

#24. I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

John Entwistle

#25. Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

Vladimir Lenin

#26. In the arts there are many right answers.

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#27. The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

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#28. The camera basically is a license to explore.

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#29. The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

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#30. We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery

Samuel Smiles

#31. I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

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#32. The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.

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#33. Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.

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