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41 " Worrying we might fail leads to fear and paralysis; it leads to making “safe” decisions instead of the ones demanded by our art, our longings. Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown. I "
― David duChemin , A Beautiful Anarchy, When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created
42 " For millennia our suffering has been the forge in which great art has been made and great lives have been lived. "
43 " In a bigger way, submission is not just going with the flow; it’s what allows us to experience flow in the first place. Flow is a state of being that is possible when the challenge of what we do and the skill level with which we do it are high and equal to each other. Flow doesn’t happen when the challenge is vastly too much for our skill: that’s struggle. Nor does it happen when our skill or craft is vastly more capable than our vision demands. That leads to repetition and boredom, as we have likely plateaued. Flow happens when our vision demands the fullness of our craft and pulls us into a state of extreme and almost unconscious focus. "
― David duChemin , The Soul of the Camera: The Photographer's Place in Picture Making
44 " Bruce Percy, a brilliant landscape photographer, once said to me, “You can’t polish a turd.” Wise words. "
― David duChemin , Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision
45 " كلما فهمت أكثر ما يلهمك ، كلما أصبح من السهل أكثر أن تضع نفسك في مساره "
― David duChemin
46 " If the task of the artist is to know ourselves, the task of the technician—the craftsman—is to know our tools. When the two meet, magic happens. "
47 " Professionals are not marked by how much money they make at their craft, but by their dedication to it and the way they recover and learn from the ones that got away. "