42 Quotes by Jerry Uelsmann

The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there’s a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours.

I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.

The camera basically is a license to explore.

Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself. The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

The room itself had a strange, timeless quality to it.

It's actually an image that I worked on for several days. It took a lot of versions until I got to that final version.

It's loaded with all sorts of clues that someone could build a story around. It's very dreamlike. I've told people for many years now that I like the idea that the images are obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious. There's not some secret formula to figure out what they mean.

In the arts there are many right answers.

The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established between the artist and his creation. While it may be true, as Nathan Lyons stated, 'The eye and the camera see more than the mind knows,' is it not also conceivable that the mind knows more than the eye and the camera can see?