Becoming yourself Quote by Ricardo Housham

To-morrow when the sun, For all your images, Comes up as the sun, bull fire, Your images will have left No shadow of themselves.

— Wallace Stevens

I just had the joy of taking pictures, and I never cared about my negatives. I just gave them away whenever anybody asked for…

— Astrid Kirchherr

I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures

— Drake

Workin with the negatives can make for better pictures.

— Drake

Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something…

— Bobby Knight

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?

— Anonymous

Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of…

— W. Eugene Smith

Never let someone negative burn your positive light out.

— Victoria Dawn Monks

“the sun doesn't scare the shadows away the light casts these tethered crude images onto a space to be trampled by another's step”

— Andrew Lafleche

“The sun creates your shadow; the mirror takes your shadow into itself; if you take a photo of the mirror, your shadow will be…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.

— Brian Ferneyhough

The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive

— Josef Koudelka