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Corvettes

Today I conducted an experiment. I published a book with Blurb using their new software, BookWright. It took me a while to get used to it, but it worked well. You can see my experiment at: Corvette

#corvette #blurb #publish #book

Perfection is reserved for the gods.

Japanese saying

#perfection #gods #japanese

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

#Judy Garland #first-rate #second-rate #somebody else

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

Annie Leibovitz

#Annie Leibovitz #camera

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

#Herman Melville #originality #imitation

Jay Maisel

I just finished two recent books by Maisel, It’s Not About the f-Stop and Light Gesture & Color. They provide excellent instruction for improving your photography by combining Maisel’s excellent photographs with enlightening commentary. They have inspired and educated me more than any other recent works.

#Jay Maisel #instruction #inspiration #education #photography

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

Jay Maisel

#Jay Maisel #shooting #out there #happen

My day

#today #circles #circular intersection

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Andre Maurois

#Andre Maurois #original #eccentricity

Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Ansel Adams

#God #click #shutter #places

Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own purposes – your purposes are not the same as others’. I’m not quite sure what he meant, but I like that. I like the way he put it.

Saul Leiter

#photographer #photography #purposes #leiter

You know it's art when the check clears.

Andy Warhol

#warhol #check #art

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

Robert Genn

#art #love #gift #heal #life #robert genn

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#Robert Mapplethorpe #creativity #money