The best camera is the one you have with you.
Interpretation
You should make the most of the tools you have at your disposal, rather than waiting for the perfect ones.
This quote emphasizes the importance of utilizing the resources and tools available to you at any given moment. Instead of waiting for the ideal situation or equipment, it encourages creativity and innovation with what you currently possess, suggesting that the act of creation is more important than perfection or ideal conditions.
In practice
A photographer giving a talk on adaptability in their craft may reference this quote.
You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get involved in it in a very physical way. You may find that the picture you want to do can only be made from a certain place, and you're not there, so you have to physically go there. And that participation may spur you on to work harder on the thing, . . . because in the physical change of position you start seeing a whole different relationship.
The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.
If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting.
Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.
I want it to sound like an orange.
The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.
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