Larry Schwarm's Photographs Of Fire

We Cannot Empty The Mind By Thinking. Only By Observation.

...assume That Art Begins In Unhappiness. True, The Goal Of Art Is To Convey A Vision Of Coherence And Peace, But The Effort To Develop That Vision Starts In The More Common Experience Of Confusion And Pain.

Darkroom Work Had, After All, Never Interested Me Except As A Means To An End; The Place I Wanted To Be Was Outside In The Light.

Almost All Photographers Have Incurred Large Expenses In The Pursuit Of Tiny Audiences, Finding That The Wonder They'd Hoped To Share Is Something Few Want To Receive.

When Photographers Get Beyond Copying The Achievements Of Others, Or Just Repeating Their Own Accidental First Successes, They Learn That They Do Not Know Where In The World They Will Find Pictures. Nobody Does. Each Photograph That Works Is A Revelation To Its Supposed Creator.