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Seek freedom within action.
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Action
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I use my music to tune myself.
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Photographer
Tunes
Use
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We always point the lens both outward and inward.
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Inward
Lenses
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The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.
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Mystery
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I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood.
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Cameras
Don't Trust
Woods
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All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.
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Dream
Photographer
Silver
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Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?
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Balance
Moments
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It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
Paul Caponigro / Photographer
Inspirational
Photography
Portraits
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Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this mystery.
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Alive
Facts
House
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The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.
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Eye
Heart
Keys
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Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.
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Might
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Photography
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... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.
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Anxiety
Desire
Effort
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I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.
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Heart
Offering
Photography
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As far as my experience goes one is automatically in touch with the higher spiritual, it is connected to a certain level that interpenetrates our total physical and psychic existence. We are always in touch with it.
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Levels
Psychics
Spiritual
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I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver.
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Eye
Mind
Photography
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Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way.
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Photography
Reality
Unique
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I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until it appears. I was not making any demands. I went purely to see what would come, what might be there. I didn't have to be archaeologist or historian or tourist, I just needed to be available.
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Demand
Light
Tourists
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Work incessantly, cultivate discrimination, gather freedom from your own hard-earned results. Disregard successes but go back for help in an immediate problem. The possibility of discovery is everywhere. Freedom from your own work allows for intuition that draws from all your experience and perception but goes beyond it.
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Discovery
Intuition
Perception
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Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expression in a matter of moments. It takes moments for a photographer to perfect his technique. And then it takes years for him to make it into something that is truly creative and worthwhile.
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Expression
Photography
Years
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At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes'.
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Art
Creativity
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In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well in advance of, or between, the actual clicking of shutters and the sloshing of films and papers in chemical solutions. I work to attain a state of heart, a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of the spirit.
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Space
Heart
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If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has announced itself to my availability will I then say I need to use my mind to calculate exposure, my emotions to position myself and arrange a configuration of shapes that need to come into being, my body to put it all in place because we have been given a message and it has come through inspiration through being available.'
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Availability
Inspiration
Mind
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Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those influences are present and at what time and what really serves the deeper process that is constantly running like a stream underground. Influence is incessant. Influence is a fact. But, carry a big shovel and dig constantly to clear away all the unessentials so that the origins of mystery and the poetic force of life can get into and inspire the work.
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Art
Running
Inspire
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The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The greatness is in constantly giving back, coming to an acknowledgment of the source. Look back to the source of any individual, any process, any set of materials. If the individual personality can relinquish its insistence on concepts like this is mine, I did it, this is original, nobody else has done it, it goes straight for greatness or the essential spirit.
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Art
Giving
Greatness
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