Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.

I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . .

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.

Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you.

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.