‘mysteriously, wonderfully, I bid farewell to what goes, I greet what comes; for what comes cannot be denied, & what goes cannot be detained.’ -Chuang-tzu
Acceptance in the Chuang-tzu is not a form of resignation but a natural response when one is in tune with the manifestations of nature. By embracing all of life, the sage can remain free of inner as well as outer conflicts
‘Art allows us to expand the dimensions of our everyday life’ -Charles Jurado
He who understands the way is certain to have command of his basic principles. He who has command of his basic principles is certain to know how to deal with circumstances. And he who knows how to deal with circumstances will not allow things to harm him.
‘If the way is made clear, it is not the way’ -Chuang-tzu
‘We will make art a love and make love like artists’ -Marianne Williams
‘Peace is much deeper than absence of war’ -Madonna
‘To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I have found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them’ -Elliot Erwitt
Perfect yang is bright and glittering, The sternness and frigidity come forth from heaven, The brightness and glitter emerge from the earth; The two mingle, penetrate, come together harmonizing and all things are born there from’ -Chuang-tzu
‘For the camera, the creative moment is brief- a compelling, ephemeral collision of event and artist. Extreme awareness combined with unobtrusiveness becomes the context the photographer must work within’ -Ken Ruth
‘Great understanding is broad and unhurried, little understanding is cramped and busy’ -Chuang-tzu (Constricted and unconstructed awareness)
‘Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, & your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things & discovering the remarkable world around you.’ -Freeman Patterson
‘Superiors must adopt inaction and make the world work for them; inferiors must adopt action and work for the world’ -Chuang-tzu
‘When you begin viewing the world through a camera lens, your senses sharpen as your mind & eyes are focused on people and things never before noticed or thought about. I discovered that even if I didn’t always take a picture, the simple act of carrying a camera & searching for something to photography greatly sharpened my powers of observation and allowed me to experience much more of life’ -Kent Reno
‘My pictures are never pre-visualised or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from some form of contact with things at the time and place of taking. At such times, I rely on intuitive, perceptual responses to guide me, using reason only after the final print is made to accept or reject the results of my work’ -Wynn Bullock
‘Looking is a gift, but seeing is a power’ -Jeff Berner
‘Taking photographs....is a way of shouting, or asserting one’s own originality. It is a way of life’ -Henri Cartier-Bresson
‘Photography is the ideal medium in which to challenge assumptions, because of all art forms, it is one people expect to represent reality..... The creative photographer grapples with these expectations, shaping or altering reality by the way he or she approaches a subject’ -Keith A. Boas
‘One of the magical things about photography is transformation that takes place when you photograph something. Something that inherently has very little going for it, can become infinitely more interesting when rendered as a photograph’ -Grant Mudford
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‘Perfect yin is stern and frigid;