The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone.

If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available.

You see shape, and how the light hits things, how the color changes from one end of the photo to the other, and how movement affects the mood of the photo.

Remember that most people (those who are not photographers) don't even see the things that you missed. Many don't even look. Ergo, you are way ahead of the game.

You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got to have a lot of things that were magnificent failures, but you want some magnificent successes.

A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.

There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.