The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography.
Interpretation
Success in photography depends more on skill and creativity than on expensive equipment.
In this quote, Chase Jarvis emphasizes that the tools and gear you use are not the primary factors that lead to success in photography. Rather, it is one's ability to envision and create captivating images that matters most; relying too heavily on equipment can cloud this fundamental truth.
In practice
In a photography workshop, to inspire students about creativity over equipment.
It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up until the recent history, permission was required for us to be able to share work at any sort of scale. We had to get permission from galleries, from ad agencies or photo editors to be able to have our work out there. And now anybody with access to a computer can show their work in 200 countries around the world.
I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.
Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. Theyβre inseparable.
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
On most lines, making a sale without making a convert does not count for much. Sales made by conviction - by advertising - are likely to bring permanent customers. People who buy through casual recommendations often do not stick
It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.
There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it again 'cause they were out of synch with where they were, and they would never raise that money again.
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