You Can Give The Same

In The 7th Grade, I Made A 20-foot Long Mural Of The Lewis And Clark Trail While We Were Studying That In History Because I Knew I Wasn't Going To Be Able To Spit Back The Names And The Dates And All That Stuff On A Test.

You Can Give The Same Recipe To Ten Cooks, And Some Make It Come Alive, And Some Make A Flat Souffle. A System Doesn't Guarantee Anything.

It Always Amazes Me That Just When I Think There's Nothing Left To Do In Photography And That All Permutations And Possibilities Have Been Exhausted, Someone Comes Along And Puts The Medium To New Use, And Makes It His Or Her Own, Yanks It Out Of This Kind Of Amateur Status, And Makes It As Profound And As Moving And As Formally Interesting As Any Other Medium.

A Photograph Doesn't Gain Weight Or Lose Weight, Or Change From Being Happy To Being Sad. It's Frozen. You Can Use It, Then Recycle It.

While Photography Is The Easiest Medium In Which To Be Competent, It Is The Hardest In Which To Develop An Idiosyncratic Personal Vision.