Clyde Butcher famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.
-- Clyde Butcher

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The only way you're going to save things in life is through love, and that's what we're trying to do .... make people fall in love with Florida.
-- Clyde Butcher

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Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.
-- Clyde Butcher

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Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul [after the death of his son]. My experience reinforced by dedication to use the art of photography as an inspiration for others to work together to save nature's places of spiritual sanctuary for future generations.
-- Clyde Butcher

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We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.
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).
Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.
As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

Clyde Butcher famous quotes

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