Category Archives: Quotables

Wisdom and insanity captured in a phrase. Did they say that? Really?

Joy-sucking drones of the universe (you know who they are…)

“Disembodied mouths that have seemingly infinite time on their hands, lots of opinions, few qualifications … and balls of solid brass.” Behold the joy-sucking drones of the art world.  They are the talking heads, not even heads really.  Disembodied mouths … Continue reading

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Words Matter… even in Photography

“The absence of a common language leaves us all in a world where anything “means what I say it does”.  This is a state of affairs which may leave the art “expert” feeling fully expressed while not even remotely understood.” … Continue reading

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Words to live by…

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.” As artists we are supposed to be these wildly creative people.  But when it comes to our own work we often develop tunnel vision.  If people are being honest with each … Continue reading

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Today’s Trend is the Nostalgia of Tomorrow

A photograph becomes a memorial of its subject the moment the shutter clicks.  All that has been memorialized will age into one of two categories; nostalgia or trivia.

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Quotable #1

“If they hate your work, they call it derivative.  If they like your work, they call it ‘informed by’.” Thanks to a  fotosavant reader for contributing the quotation above, which they attribute to a reviewer at fotofest 2010. Keep watching … Continue reading

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