So, I finished going through my ‘Favourites’ on Twitter, and here is the last of the quotes that I have collected over the last 2 years. There is a lot of inspiration here, a lot of truth, and a little fun.  It also tells a little bit about my photography style and how much Photography is a part of my life.  It isn’t just a ‘job’ to me.  It is my passion, my career, and my hobby.  I am so blessed that I found my calling and am able to pursue it full time.  Couldn’t have done it without my wonderful friends and family!

1. There is a photograph everywhere and it’s the photographer’s job to find it – Unknown
2. The best people make the best photographs. – Morley Baer
3. When I photograph, I always look for people who are absorbed in something. – Susie Fitzhugh
4. A simple prescription for creativity: don’t try to do pictures for others to look at – just please yourself. – Ralph Steiner
5. Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. ~Unknown
6. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, & paints his own nature into his pictures. -Henry Ward Beecher
7. There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture. – Ruth Bernhard
8. There is no such a thing as artistic photography. In photography… there are people who can see and others who cannot even look. – Nadar
9. No great artist ever sees things as they are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. – Oscar Wilde
10. Pretty is boring. Seek intensity. W. M. Hunt
11. There’s no rule to say you must use only one style. You’re the artist, you’re the boss, it’s your painting.-  Marion Boddy Evans
12. The richest reward of all is being proud of your work. – Jan Carlzon
13. If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won’t see anything. – Ruth Bernhard
14. The only thing that makes a good photo is if you like the photo. Andrew Maclean
15. A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it. – Edward Steichen
16. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.’ Dorothea Lange
17. Does it interest the eye, excite the brain, move the mind to reflection, and involve the heart? – Julian Barnes
18. Don’t try to be original; just try to be good. -Paul Rand
19. It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Henry David Thoreau
20. I do what inspires me, because that’s when I’m at my best.~ Sam Sheppard
21. Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! – Bill Brandt
22. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics. – Manuel Alvarez Bravo
23. Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it. – Morley Baer
24. The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed.- Garry Winogrand
25. Photography doesn`t teach you to express your emotions it teachs you to see. – Berenice Abbott
26. There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed ~ Garry Winogrand
27. Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. – Edouard Boubat
28. Never take photographic advice from someone who tells you that there is only way to do something. – Anonymous
29. Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls – Francis Bacon
30. Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology – Ken Rockwell
31. …only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants ~ Photographer, Bill Brandt
32. When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously – Minor White
33. Your tripod and your camera must be well-fixed but your eyes and mind should be free – Lawrence Sackmann
34. Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine. – Berenice Abbott
35. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. ~Joseph Campbell
36. I love how photography, when used intuitively, tells you about yourself and your relationship to the world- Len Jenshel
37. Imitation is the greatest danger of the young photographer. – Alexey Brodovitch
38. When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice – Robert Frank
39. A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts – Sir Joshua Reynolds
40. Anyone can take a picture…a person with a passion (a photographer) sees the picture before it’s taken. – Anonymous
41. Photographic work is always personal. A photograph reveals the photographer. – Anonymous
42. To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. ~ Auguste Rodin
43. What do you want to express with your photography? – That I need a psychoanalyst.’ Timothy Barnes
44. Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. – Betty Smith
45. You can take an average picture of an extraordinary thing or you can take an extraordinary picture of an average thing. – Tony Corbell
46. You practice and you get better. It’s very simple. ~ Philip Glass