“The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.”
― The Art Spirit
― The Art Spirit
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
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“THE TECHNIQUE of a little individuality will be a little technique, however scrupulously elaborated it may be.”
― The Art Spirit
― The Art Spirit
“Fulfill the assignment first. I aim to please, probably to a fault. This is not a strategy I’d recommend to the next photographer, because it can curtail one’s own creative impulses. As a solution, photographers sometimes shoot two variations of a picture: one for the client that addresses the assignment and one for themselves that floats their boat.”
― Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer
― Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer
“It happens a lot. The first frame is the winner.”
― Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer
― Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer
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