"Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its re-creation in a photograph must be based upon technical knowledge, guided and supported by artsitic inspiration."

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Source : Andreas Feininger (1953). “Feininger on Photography”

Andreas Feininger

#Photography Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Two Quotes

“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
“The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.”
“You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you wish to paint; start quickly, move the brush, follow straight what you see before you, as the buzzard swoops down when the hare jumps out. If you hesitate one moment, it is gone.”

Source : "Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles". Book by Osvald Sirén, Volume 2, p. 14, 1974.
“It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.”
“When I wrote the book, I thought that I was the hero of my story. And in writing it, I came to realize over time that my mom was the hero. And I was, you know - I was just her punk-ass sidekick.”
“The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.”
“Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'”
“I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.”

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