If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.
Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.
Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.
Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.
Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.
Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent. . . the camera.
Don't park. . . Arrival is the death of inspiration.
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
My sophomore English teacher encouraged me to write for the school paper, and that's what got me started. Suddenly it struck me that being a writer could be a romantic and adventurous position. Previously, I had thought I would be a tennis pro, giving lessons at a local club. I thought that would be a good life, and it might have been.
O, Begin! Fix some part of every day for private exercises. . . Whether you like it or no, read and pray daily. It is for your life; there is no other way; else you will be a trifler all your days. . . Do justice to your own soul; give it time and means to grow. Do not starve yourself any longer.
If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.