Quotes About Jerry Uelsmann

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

Jerry N. Uelsmann

#2. The FA Cup means a lot. There is a real passion here for the competition which you don't get elsewhere. It's a love affair. It's part and parcel of living up here. People might think I'm daft, but I'm not wrong; I'd rather win the Cup than the League.

Alan Shearer

#3. Photography is just light remembering itself.

Jerry Uelsmann

#4. 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.

Jerry Uelsmann

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

Jerry Uelsmann

#6. 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

#7. 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.

Jerry Uelsmann

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

Jerry Uelsmann

#9. While I waded in my desolation, the only luxury I found in our, now silent, trek to Belvar was that Malik and Leo continued to readjust on their seat, appearing to never find a comfortable position.

Scarlett Dawn

#10. 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.

Jerry N. Uelsmann

#11. Wendy," he continued, in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys."
Now Wendy was every inch a woman, though there were not very many inches, and she peeped out of the bed-clothes.
"Do you really think so, Peter?"
"Yes, I do.

J.M. Barrie

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

Jerry Uelsmann

#13. Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

Mary Calderone

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

Jerry Uelsmann

#15. If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.

Allen Grossman

#16. 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.

Jerry Uelsmann

#17. He had transformed, from "Froschjunge," or "Frog boy," to her very own knight in shining armor.

Melanie Dickerson

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

Jerry Uelsmann

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

Jerry Uelsmann

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

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

Jerry Uelsmann

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

Jerry N. Uelsmann

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

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

Jerry Uelsmann

#25. Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth. I can, however, offer you this comfort. Given time, they will wither and die of their own volition.

Anthony Horowitz

#26. All knowledge is self-reflective.

Jerry Uelsmann

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

Jerry Uelsmann

#28. 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.

Jerry Uelsmann

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

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

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#31. I have gradually confused photography with life.

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#32. When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.'

Dick Van Dyke

#33. Being gay doesn't take your brain away or exclude me from having the same attributes as anyone else.

Don Lemon

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

Jerry Uelsmann