“As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.” ArtistOpinionFocusDistractionGuessingSecond GuessingSecond Guessing Yourself Author:Dwight Yoakam
“Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.” ArtistUniverseFocusMetsVisionariesDenmarkIceland Author:Victor Pinchuk
“The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.” MenArtistHumanityNaturalFocusImportanceReactions Author:Ben Shahn
“Even the mistakes, even everything bad that happened, I wouldn’t change because then I wouldn’t be the person that I am today. The past is the past. I just want to focus on the future, and getting better, not making the same mistakes and just becoming a better person, a better artist. Just a better everything.” WantPersonsTodayPastArtistMistakeFocusHappenedBecomingGet BetterBetter PersonSame MistakesMaking The Same MistakesFocus On The FutureBecoming A Better Person Author:Jay Park
“Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.” WantNeedsGivingArtDoneMomentsFormArtistFocusPaintingExpressionAmountPhotographyBasesCamerasMediumsArtisticReasonableCriticizeCompositionSelectionSculptureSelectLightingArtistic Expression Author:Edwin Land
“An artist is either good at color or good at value but rarely good at both. I focus on the tonal range, the dark-light effects, rather than the full color range of bright colors. I just don't know what to do with all those cadmiums.” KnowsLightArtistValuesDarkFocusEffectsColorRangeColourBright Colors Author:Thomas S. Buechner
“I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingHelpingArtistCreativityFocusProtectCreatorSupposed To BeRegimesCopyrightFreedom To Choose Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.” MomentsArtistEasyDifficultSimpleEmotionFocusTalentPhotographyCamerasPhotographerSurfaceMediumsFixedNativeContradictionConceptionInstructionRecallsBlankFormidableShutters Author:Edward Steichen
“The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.” ChildrenRealPlayArtistFocusDisciplineConcentrationSmall Child Book:A Circle of Quiet Source: A Circle of Quiet