The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
Quotes
You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.
Joel Meyerowitz
Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
Richard Feynman
Many an original composition is corrected into mediocrity.
Walter Scott
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.
Martha Graham
Photography has no rules, it is not a sport.
Bill Brandt
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm
A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
Chinese Proverb
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou
A real diamond is never perfect.
Anthony Doerr
It’s a world, someone’s face. When I capture it, I see the future of the world.
Malick Sidibé
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
Dorothy Parker
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
Man Ray
Nudity is a state of fact – lewdity a state of mind.
Paul Outerbridge
Art is not a privilege, it’s a right. It’s a fundamental part of being human.
Carmen Lomas Garza
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde
The aim of art is to present not the outward appearance of a thing, but its inward significance.
Aristotle
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
William Osler
Teachers open the door.
You enter by yourself.Chinese proverb
Reality is always extraordinary
Mary Ellen Mark
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Oscar Wilde
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre.
Walter Benjamin
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Dorothea Lange
The only true voyage of discovery… would be not to visit strange lands but to behold the universe through the eyes of another…
Marcel Proust
Nothing could be worse than a return to normality.
Arundhati Roy
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Mae West
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham
The one who plants trees, knowing that they will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
Rabindranath Tagore
Seeing is not as simple as looking.
Joseph Kosuth
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Without deviations from the norm, progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa
If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees. If your plan is for a hundred years, educate children.
Confucius
I don't want art for a few,
any more than education for a few,
or freedom for a few.William Morris
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus
Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.
Alasdair Gray
Industry without art is brutality.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
Story telling reveals meaning without the error of defining it.
Hannah Arendt
A photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
John Berger
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African Proverb
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
Creativity is contagious, pass it on.
Albert Einstein
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.
Robert Frank