I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the idea that artistry can be a means to support one's family.
Irving Penn highlights the connection between his profession as a photographer and his responsibility as a provider for his family. Through his craft, he not only pursues his passion for photography but also ensures the financial support needed to raise and take care of his wife and children, emphasizing the role of art as a practical means to fulfill family obligations.
In practice
During a speech at a photography seminar, I could use this quote to highlight the balance between artistry and providing for loved ones.
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.
I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me - the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.
I'm a storyteller who wants to tell untold, meaningful, universal stories in unforgettable ways. I want to do it all, study it all, and find my place in it.
I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.
Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
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