14 Quotes by Freeman Patterson

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

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.

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

It seems to me that the whole purpose of the workshops is really twofold. One – to help people make better pictures, and two – to unleash their creativity to the fullest amount that they possibly can.

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.