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> [I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until it appears. I was not making any demands. I went purely to see what would come, what might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/i-ve-got-to-get-the-ultimate-in-composition-today-or-i-ve-got-to-get/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

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## More by Paul Caponigro

> [Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/photography-s-potential-as-a-great-image-maker-and-communicator-is/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

> [I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until it appears.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/i-ve-got-to-get-the-ultimate-in-composition-today-or-i-ve-got-to-get/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

> [I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/i-work-to-attain-a-state-of-heart-a-gentle-space-offering/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

> [Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/photography-is-a-medium-a-language-through-which-i-might-come-to/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

> [As far as my experience goes one is automatically in touch with the higher spiritual, it is connected to a certain level that interpenetrates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/as-far-as-my-experience-goes-one-is-automatically-in-touch-with-the/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

> [The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The greatness is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/the-only-way-a-work-of-art-can-become-great-is-for-one-to-acknowledge/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

> [All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/all-that-i-have-achieved-are-these-dreams-locked-in-silver/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

> [I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/i-don-t-trust-any-camera-you-can-t-make-out-of-wood/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

> [We always point the lens both outward and inward.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/we-always-point-the-lens-both-outward-and-inward/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

> [Work incessantly, cultivate discrimination, gather freedom from your own hard-earned results. Disregard successes but go back for help in an immediate problem. The possibility…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/work-incessantly-cultivate-discrimination-gather-freedom-from-your/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

> [Seek freedom within action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/seek-freedom-within-action/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

> [At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/at-the-root-of-creativity-is-an-impulse-to-understand-to-make-sense/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

> [Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those influences are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/under-all-of-the-factors-that-make-up-the-art-world-it-s-up-to-the/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

> [I use my music to tune myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/i-use-my-music-to-tune-myself/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

> [I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-caponigro/i-often-see-the-materials-of-photography-as-being-a-type-of-terrain/)

[Paul Caponigro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-caponigro/)

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