Freeman Patterson Quotes

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.

A photographer who wants to see....must recognize the value of the familiar. Your ability to see is not increased by the distance you put between yourself and your home. If you do not see what is all around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?....Good seeing doesn't ensure good photographs, but good photographic expression is impossible without it.

The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself.

If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?

A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new