“I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if they're at just some stuck point. They're not sure what to do with their lives or their writing or their photography or their filmmaking or whatever it is that they're doing. I think the best advice is you have to change your life up completely; to go on a trip, to go spend a year being of service. Be willing to take some major drastic action to get you out of your comfort zone and go inside, not outside.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWritingYearsWellsActionCreativeShareAdviceWillingGoes OnComfortPhotographyMajorsStuckBlockNot SureZoneFilmmakingComfort ZoneChanging Your LifeBest AdviceDrasticCreative Block Author:Rainn Wilson
“The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker had a modifying influence on what was going on.” ActionInfluenceAmbitionPhotographyAvoidingSpontaneityIndicationInstantaneousModifying Author:Rudolf Arnheim
“I think the best way to put it is that newspictures are the noun and the verb; our kind of photography is the adjective and adverb. The newspicture is a single frame; ours, a subject viewed in series. The newspicture is dramatic, all subject and action. Ours shows what's back of the action.” ThinkingWayKindShowsActionSubjectsPhotographySeriesBest WayDramaticVerbsAdjectivesNounsAdverbsAdjectives And Adverbs Author:Roy Stryker
“Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers.” FirstsSaidTwoLightActionEvolutionPhotographyModelsPhotographer Author:Bill Jay
“I try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean.” PeopleTryingUseActionMovingOceanPhotographyBelovedWildlife Author:Tom Gruber
“Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.” I CanLightActionFallSportsPerfectSubjectsPhotographyPhotogenic Author:Steven Pinker
“At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.” MeanActionFeltCreativePhotographyDecidedPhotographerIntuitionThoughts And ActionsRationalizeNever RegretCreative Thought Author:Wynn Bullock
“When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).” WorldWantSelfActionOrderConditionsEventsObjectsPhotographyPhotographerPhotographPermanentDisorderSelf Contained Book:Aaron Siskind, photographer Source: Aaron Siskind, photographer
“This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And it's true. If you watch a photographer of merit working an event he/she does not look like an amateur.” IfsLooksDoeIdeasActionWatchesEventsPhotographyPhotographerMediumsMeritSeconds Author:David Hurn
“Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.” MindStatesInspirationActionWaitingCreativePhotographyPhotographerReachingState Of Mind Author:Minor White
“Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.” ActionStrongPhotographyMotiveStirring Author:Berenice Abbott
“The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated” ShouldMindHeartArtActionFieldsPhotographyPhotographerPhotographHeart And Mind Author:Frederick Sommer