People are competing to win at a game that is a loser's game. The game is to have … - Henry Holmes Smith

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Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines our highest moral and spiritual intuitions and inclinations. Yet, building that society can never be divided from the daily practices through which we live out our ethical and spiritual lives, both in the way we treat others around us, and in the way we nourish the God within us.

Henry Holmes Smith

People are competing to win at a game that is a loser's game. The game is to have better routine images than someone else's routine images. If you want a prescription for routine images, you just have to go through any student's portfolio.

Games, People, Portfolio, Win, Winning

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Somebody said recently that the best thing a student could do was to get in some shows and publish a book; but nothing about becoming a human being, nothing about having important feelings or concepts of humanity. That's the sort of thing that is bad education. I'd say be a human being first and if you happen to wind up using photography, that's good for photography.

Becoming, Book, Human, Photography, Thing, Wind

The brightest light makes the blackest mark.

Blackest, Brightest, Light, Mark

I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room and you walk toward her with hope in your mind. That's the way [my] pictures are made.

Girl, Lovely, Pictures, Thinking, Walk, Word

In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange, private worlds rarely slip past our guard.

Photography, Past, World, Strange, Disturbing

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.

Firsts, Intensely, Making, Rate, Reason, Subjective