Bill Jay Quotes
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When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.
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Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices.
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The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.
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At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.
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If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?
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A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.
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I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . .
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Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.
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Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.
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True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.
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If there is a single factor which separates the best photographers from the wannabes it is the quantity of images which they produce. They seem to be forever shooting. I have watched many of them as they take picture after picture even when they are not photographing. Often these intimate images do not look as though they were taken by the same photographer. And that is their fascination and charm.
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Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an interference pattern with the image. Who he is, what he believes, not only becomes important to know intellectually, but also becomes revealed emotionally and visibly through a body of work.
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But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.
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'I am a camera' but it is a discontinued model.
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Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.
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If it is not an interesting picture when in focus, it is not going to be a better picture out of focus.
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Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers.
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I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.
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A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.
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There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received scant attention: it does not make a lot of noise. ... Perhaps photography would be more appreciated if camera shutters fired with the sound of a .357 Magnum.