"The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are always antagonized. Do not mind that. If a thing is good it will survive."

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Source : Barbara L. Michaels, Gertrude Käsebier (1992). “Gertrude Käsebier: the photographer and her photographs”, Harry N Abrams Inc

Gertrude Kasebier

#Photography Quotes #Keys Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Am like a Fire Fly, Charged to Execute my Flames to Light this World up, therefore, you have to Kill me to get out my Flame.”
“When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.”
“(As a boy) I was listening to Sonny Boy Williamson's (I) records and I would close my eyes and I could visualize myself playing the harp.”
“Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.”
“I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.”
“Make each day a masterpiece. Don't think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can't today be a great day? It can if you believe it will.”
“Our primary identity has become that of being consumers â€“ not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.”
“Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.”

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