“If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.”
Sheff
David
May 1983
Playboy
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American photographer and environmentalist 1902–1984Related quotes

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
Attributed to Adams in E.T. Schoch (2002), The Everything Digital Photography Book (2002) p. 105

60 Minutes interview (2006)

“Being photographed does not make a man a good writer. It doesn't make a man anything.”
Robert Frank, in: Nathan Lyons, Photographers on photography: a critical anthology, (1966), p. 66

“For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.”
As quoted in [Coon, Caroline, w:en:Caroline Coon, 1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion, http://homepage.mac.com/blackmarketclash/Bands/Clash/Clash%20gigography/1976%20DATES.html, 2011-09-21, 1977, Hawthorn, London, 0801561299., 79262599, http://web.archive.org/20071026052834/homepage.mac.com/blackmarketclash/Bands/Clash/Clash%20gigography/1976%20DATES.html, 2007-10-26]

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“I do not trust my eyes to tell me what a man is: I have a better and more trustworthy light by which I can distinguish what is true from what is false: let the mind find out what is good for the mind.”
Oculis de homine non credo, habeo melius et certius lumen quo a falsis uera diiudicem: animi bonum animus inueniat.
De Vita Beata (On the Happy Life): cap. 2, line 2
Alternate translation: I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man. (translator unknown).
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