The Compelling Image

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to live the life you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected In common hours. You will pass an invisible boundary new, universal and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within you and you will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

PLATO

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses, would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist . . . what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

THOMAS ALVA EDISON

Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

PICASSO

You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Professional fine art photographer David Hoptman teaches two online and interactive courses at The Compelling Image-The Abstract Image and Mixed-Media Photography.