Category: thoughts

Anyone can take pictures. What’s difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That’s really where the work of the artist begins.

Lewis Baltz

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

Andy Warhol

With a camera like that you don’t believe you’re in the masterpiece business. It’s enough to be able to peck at the world.

Lee Friedlander

A photographer’s main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Charles Bukowski

Maybe it’s just me, but I still think this is one of the best series of photographs I’ve ever seen.

www.markklettphotography.com/saguaros

People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this mystical, magical place. The desert is also a very barren place, a very lonely place, a very boring, uneventful place.

Richard Misrach