ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a collection of quotes that embody essential advice from over 100 instructors, professionals, photo experts, and more. The knowledge herein comes from the experience of helping countless students discover their creative and intellectual potential. Making photographs is a constant uphill struggle. The readers are never fully satisfied with the images they make, so they have to keep making more. Know photography’s history. Understanding their own work in their medium is related to their understanding of both how it fits into contemporary photographic practice and how it relates to photographers who have come before them. Taking pictures is a kind of act of meditation where one needs to focus inwardly as well as outwardly.
