Photography Quote by Bill Jay Download Open image “I was offered $100,000 for a print. Then I woke up.” — Bill Jay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Photography Print
Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
A newspaper man wrote an article that I had 300 million dollars, well, I wish I had a million dollars — Meyer Lansky Copy Share Image
Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
“She realized that the photograph had caused his reaction. It came to her almost as a revelation. Think of it: a photographer presses a… — Soheir Khashoggi Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
“But any picture could deal with the problem of light. The problem with this picture is greater than that of reflective surfaces - it's… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
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,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography. — Chase Jarvis Copy Share Image
I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
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