Freeman Patterson Quotes

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

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.

No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.

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

Creation and creativity are inextricably linked.

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

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

Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement.

The abstracting of visual elements in order to recognize their particularity has become automatic, but seeing, combining, and creating them as integrated 'wholes' will remain a lifelong challenge.

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them.

I photograph Nature, which includes human beings.