{"id":18705,"date":"2017-09-14T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T16:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=18705"},"modified":"2017-09-14T12:08:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T16:08:25","slug":"17-great-quotes-photographer-david-duchemin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/18705\/17-great-quotes-photographer-david-duchemin\/","title":{"rendered":"17 Great Quotes By Photographer David DuChemin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20160305-duChemin-Istanbul-138_425.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20160305-duChemin-Istanbul-138_425.jpg\" alt=\"Istanbul, Turkey\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Enjoy this collection of quotes by photographer\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/davidduchemin.com\/\">David DuChemin<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe clich\u00e9 comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.\u201d\u00a0 &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cLearning to see is not about having open eyes; it\u2019s about having an open mind.\u201d &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe more curious we are the more creative we become.\u201d &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cCreativity is about two things; the way we think, and the way we turn those thoughts into reality.\u201d &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt is we show put the humanity, the vision, and the poetry into our photographs.\u201d &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhen we look at our photographs and find not the slightest reflection of ourselves, it is a good sign that our images have lost their souls.\u201d &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe idea of authenticity carries such value because we know how difficult it is to be fully ourselves.\u201d &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAnyone can take a picture of poverty; it\u2019s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It\u2019s much harder\u2014and much more needful\u2014to pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity of people that, but for their birth into a place and circumstance different from our own, are just like ourselves. I want my images to tell the story of those people and to move us beyond pity to justice and mercy.\u201d\u00a0 &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cA representational photograph says, &#8216;This is what Vienna looked like.&#8217; An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, &#8216;This is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it.\u201d\u00a0 &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c\u2018What is it about?\u2019 is not the same as \u2018What happened?\u2019\u201d &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cIt\u2019s the difference between your wife\u2019s passport photograph and the portraits you took when you got<\/span> <span class=\"s2\">engaged. Both may have been created with similar technology, but what stands in that great gulf between them are the passion you have for your wife, the knowledge you have of her personality, and your willingness to use your craft, time, and energy to express that. One says, \u201cShe looks like this.\u201d The other says, \u201cThis is who she is to me. It\u2019s how I feel about her. See how amazing she is.\u201d &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cPerfection is overrate, and not to be confused with mastery.\u201d &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cPhotographers, like few other kinds of artists I can imagine, have an insanely<\/span> <span class=\"s2\">personal relationship with their gear.\u201d\u00a0 &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cKnowing 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.\u201d\u00a0 &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cYou yourself are unique&#8211;you have ways of seeing your world that are unlike those of anyone else&#8211;so find ways to more faithfully express that, and your style will emerge.\u201d &#8211; David DuChemin\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe real failure is to rob this world of the contribution only you can make, and to fail to make work that truly gives you that &#8216;this is what I was created to do&#8217; feeling that has no equal.\u201d &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>will never reach the end of this journey. I\u2019ll never arrive at a point where others have nothing to teach me.\u201d &#8211; David DuChemin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/davidduchemin.com\/\">Find out more about David DuChemin here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/photographers\/q-and-a\/david-duchemin\/\">Read David\u00a0DuChemin&#8217;s Q&amp;A here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/photographers\/quotes\/david-duchemin\/\">Read David DuChemin&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/photographers\/quotes\/david-duchemin\/\">Favorite Quotes here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecompellingframe.com\/\">Preview his new online course The Compelling Frame now.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy this collection of quotes by photographer\u00a0David DuChemin. \u201cThe clich\u00e9 comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.\u201d\u00a0 &#8211; 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