Jerry Uelsmann Quotes

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• My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There…
• Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where…
• And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first of all, with…
• Editions made sense when people worked with engravings where the plate wore down as prints were made. An early number of the edition had slightly…
• It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.
• I have gradually confused photography with life.
• Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.
• The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established…
• Photography is just light remembering itself.
• The camera basically is a license to explore.
• The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there’s a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like,…
• I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.
• It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.
• I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.
• Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself,
• The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality
• The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.
• The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.
• The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.
• In the arts there are many right answers.

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