My artistic motto is "What I lack in talent, I make up in volume."
I saw that sentence in an ad in a computer magazine, when I was looking for words to put in collages.
It really reverberates for me. I know that if I don't make stuff I can't possibly make any good stuff. The quote is my liberation from obsessing about whether something is "good enough" -- my job is to make stuff, and then make some more stuff. The more stuff I make, the more likely some of it will be good.....
I love digital photography, as it allows me to capture A LOT of images, for essentially no incremental cost. (Also none of the pollution associated with traditional photography!)
I don't know how many pics I took from the plane, going to and coming from North Carolina. Dozens and dozens. Here is one of the few keepers:
I do have an extensive collection of quotes. I keep them in a computer file. I like the idea of a book, with images to go with the quotes......
9 comments:
Yes...more stuff! That's my motto!!
Great photo.
Great quote!
I so agree about the digital photos - I have tons and find it hard to part with even the bad ones!
That's a great philosophy! Just make stuff!
Your quotation reminds me of something that Linus Pauling said:
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Thanks for the kind words!
I am trying to be ruthless about getting rid of extraneous pics. I can ditch the blurry ones, almost always (unless they are good captures of "a moment in time" even if blurry -- pics of people in a particular moment -- then I will keep them even if blurry).
My problem comes when I have 8 that are basically all the same. :-) Throwing out 7 of them is hard....... But I'm really trying to do it. Even though digital pics don't take up too much space in my house, they take up too much space in my brain..... Much better to get RID of the ones that are essentially duplicates. So I try.
Nancy Bea, I agree with you -- me and Linus, on the same page. :-)
Last night my husband was talking about enjoying a bridge tournament last weekend -- he felt more on top of his game than he had been feeling. It struck me how incredibly much value "just keep plugging away" has, across basically all of human endeavor....
Every sort of effort has times that are more productive, and times that are less productive. Keeping on keeping on is really important to overall "success" (however we want to define that).
Thinking now of a quote from the movie Galaxy Quest (which is fun, if you've never seen it) -- "Never surrender!"
:-)
Once I switched over to digital it was sooo much easier for me to get rid of bad photos. With tradition photography, once they were printed I found it almost sacreligious to throw any photo away...no matter how bad.
I tried to be pretty ruthless about the printed ones in olden times, too.....
But I have never ever thown away a negative...............
An end-of-high-school tradition in Ann Arbor is that parents put an ad in their kid's yearbook. As I was going through allllll the pics, looking for some to use in the ad, I was horrified at the extent to which my pics, closed up in (supposedly archival) albums!!!!!!!!!!!, have deteriorated. The color is just not standing up to time, even in a dark closed album.....
I mean to scan them all, before they get worse, and have everything be digital. THEN I will throw away all the negatives.... :-)
There is something to be said for the creative process itself. I find creating a meditative activity. It is all about the act, the prodcuct is incidental.
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