"I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs."

--

Source : "Erwin Blumenfeld’s Studio" by Genevieve Fussell, www.newyorker.com. September 15, 2014.

Erwin Blumenfeld

#Soul Quotes #Likes Quotes #Photographer Quotes

“I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.”
“Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most important element of any poem is the part that is left unsaid. So the poetry frames the experience that lies beyond naming.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance.”

Source : "The Country the World Forgot - Again". www.telegraph.co.uk. April 21, 2002.
“Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.”
“Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.”
“Our goal is to develop our team, to earn what we get, to learn, to develop unselfish attitudes. If we achieve that, the results is that we'll win.”
“There's such an energy created when the world is turned upside down, and when things are good again it's nice to take note. Then it goes away. Change. Change means friction. Friction happens where things aren't quite right, when everything is separating, when nothing is the same. Later you piece it back together.”
“I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.”

Source : Paul Harding (2011). “Tinkers”, p.44, Random House

You may also like:

Andre Kertesz
Photographer
Cecil Beaton
Photographer
Edward Steichen
Photographer
Helmut Newton
Photographer
Irving Penn
Photographer
Man Ray
Artist
Norman Parkinson
Photographer
Richard Avedon
Photographer
Carmen Dell'Orefice
Fashion model