“I believe that... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming to something which, to my eye, was very beautiful, I stopped there instead of screwing on the lens to the more definite focus which all other photographers insist upon.” FirstsBelieveEyeBeautifulI BelieveFocusPhotographerOriginalityDefiniteLensesVery BeautifulFlukes Author:Julia Margaret Cameron
“The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.” MenBelieveTruthYoungErrorsFoolishCleverYoung ManOriginalityRecognizingForfeit Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe