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Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.

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Bill Jay
Age: 68 †
Born: 1940
Born: August 12
Died: 2009
Died: May 10
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I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.
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Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.
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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'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.
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The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.
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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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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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At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs you can wring its neck later.
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If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of other people who would love to put words in your mouth.
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Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you.
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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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When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.
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Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.
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I was offered $100,000 for a print. Then I woke up.
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Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.
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