Darkroom Work Had, After All, Never Interested

. . .art Is A Discovery Of Harmony, A Vision Of Disparities Reconciled, Or Shape Beneath Confusion.

Still Photographs Often Differ From Life More By Their Silence Than By The Immobility Of Their Subjects. Landscape Pictures Tend To Converge With Life, However, On Summer Nights, When The Sounds Outside, After We Call In Children And Close Garage Doors, Are Small - The Whir Of Moths, The Snap Of A Stick.

Part Of The Difficulty In Trying To Be Both An Artist And A Businessperson Is This: You Make A Picture Because You Have Seen Something Beyond Price; Then You Are To Turn And Assign To Your Record Of It A Cash Value. If The Selling Is Not Necessarily A Contradiction Of The Truth In The Picture, It Is So Close To Being A Contradiction—and The Truth Is Always In Shades Of Gray-that You Are Worn Down By The Threat.

You've Always Been Free. You've Always Been Bright And Shining. Everything Else Is Just Nonsense.

Never Pray To God For Release Of Your Problems. Never Pray To God To Change Your Life, And To Give You Something Better. This Is Wrong Prayer. If You Have To Pray To God, Pray To God To Give You The Strength And The Wisdom And The Courage That You Need To Be Able To Handle The Situation That You're In. This Is Correct Prayer.