I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous. Joel Meyerowitz More Quotes by Joel Meyerowitz More Quotes From Joel Meyerowitz [The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation. Joel Meyerowitz cameras energy meditation They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you take a photograph, you've been responsive to something, and you looked hard at it. Hard for a thousandth of a second, hard for ten minutes. But hard, nonetheless. And it's the quality of that bite that teaches you how connected you were to that thing, and where you stood in relation to it, then and now. Joel Meyerowitz quality yesterday past What is the art experience about? Really, I'm not interested in making Art at all. I never, ever, think about it. To say the word Art, it's almost like a curse on art. I do know that I want to try to get closer to myself. The older I get, the more indications I have about what it is to get closer to yourself. You try less hard. I just want to be. Joel Meyerowitz trying art thinking
