Top 30 Uelsmann Quotes
#1. I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?
Andrew Bird
#2. 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
#3. The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.
Jerry Uelsmann
#4. I'm dizzy. It physically hurts to look at him. "I can't breathe."
"Of course you can breathe," Kurt says. "You're breathing right now.
Stephanie Perkins
#5. I've been in situations where I've been sent scripts to direct, and I always end up becoming very controlling and wanting to rewrite it to fit what I think it should say, and it just usually doesn't work.
Frank Whaley
#6. I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.
Jerry Uelsmann
#7. 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
#8. The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.
Jerry Uelsmann
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. 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
#14. 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
#15. It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.
Jerry Uelsmann
#16. Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.
Jerry Uelsmann
#18. I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.
Jerry Uelsmann
#19. My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.
Jerry Uelsmann
#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.
Jerry Uelsmann
#21. It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.
Jerry Uelsmann
#24. The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality
Jerry Uelsmann
#25. From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.
Kate Bernheimer
#27. But today I would suggest you ponder these verses from Ecclesiastes: "And he would have seven flights of madness in his soul, who, having hung his clothes beneath the sun, would groan at the hour of rain,
Arthur Rimbaud
#28. The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.
Jerry Uelsmann
#29. I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.
Jerry Uelsmann
#30. The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.
Jerry Uelsmann
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