Brooks Jensen > Quotes

“It's been said that the role of the artist is to teach us to see and that's true. However, the role of other artists is to teach me how they see. To learn how I see is somethig that cannot be taught but must be learned.”
― Brooks Jensen, Letting Go of the Camera: Essays on Photography and the Creative Life

“The key is to integrate our art into our life, not the other way around.”
― Brooks Jensen, Letting Go of the Camera: Essays on Photography and the Creative Life

“Photographic truth is usually a constructed, believable fiction or, as in Lange’s photograph, a complex symbol that doesn’t represent absolute truth either.”
― Brooks Jensen, Letting Go of the Camera

“There are other more important questions: What do you see? What do you feel? What do you think? What do you hear? How do you respond?”
― Brooks Jensen, Letting Go of the Camera

“You see, the hard part of photography has never been technology, but rather the more difficult process of artmaking — a process that is stubbornly unsolvable through technological means and remains the sole province of the human heart, the human mind, and human soul.”
― Brooks Jensen, The Creative Life in Photography

“practice does not make perfect. Rather, it is the practice of perfection that makes perfect.”
― Brooks Jensen, Letting Go of the Camera

“Similarly, when your only tool is a specific kind of camera, the only things you will see to photograph are those things best suited to that camera.”
― Brooks Jensen, Letting Go of the Camera