My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a … - Michael Kenna

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When Kirk dies it was very emotional and very strange, in the moment and all the way through the process. I'd read it in the script and I'd always be struck by what I'd just done and what we were doing, and that this was my childhood hero and I was writing his death.

Michael Kenna

My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a means to an end. A serious artist will work with intensity to discover themselves, their own personal vision. I believe this is a fundamental aspect of the creative path.

Believe, Mean, Artist, Vision, Imitating, Serious

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Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities.

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We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather than a copy.

Black And White, Copy, Everything, Interpretation, See, World

I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour.

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For me, the subtlety of black and white inspires the imagination of the individual viewer to complete the picture in the mind's eye. It doesn't attempt to compete with the outside world. I believe it is calmer and gentler than colour, and persists longer in our visual memory.

Memories, Believe, Eye, Compete, Imagination

The golden rule in the arts, as far as I am concerned, is that all rules are meant to be broken.

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