Julia Margaret Cameron Quotes

• When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Creativity, Power, Determine

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• Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Cameras, Use, Not Afraid

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• What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Focus

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• From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Memories, Voice, Creative

  Julia Margaret Cameron (1973). “Victorian photographs of famous men & fair women”, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Leap, and the net will appear.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Positive, Success, Faith

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• I believe that... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming to something which, to my eye, was very beautiful, I stopped there instead of screwing on the lens to the more definite focus which all other photographers insist upon.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Beautiful, Believe, Eye

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• Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

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  Business, Organization, Growth

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• My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Photography, Art, Real

  Julia Margaret Cameron, J. Paul Getty Museum (1996). “Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.6, Getty Publications

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• When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a painter is painting, he or she may begin with a plan, but that plan is soon surrendered to the painting's own plan. This is often expressed as 'The brush takes the next stroke.' In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Listening, Sculpture, Actors

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• I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Longing, Length, Satisfied

  Julia Margaret Cameron (1973). “Victorian photographs of famous men & fair women”, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words on your wrists. 'There, there,' my words would say - Or something better. I would ask them to murmur, 'Hush' and 'Shh, shhh, it's all right.' I would ask them to hold you all night. I wish I could take language And daub and soothe and cool Where fever blisters and burns, Where fever turns yourself against you. I wish I could take language And heal the words that were the wounds You have no names for.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Night, Names, Wish

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• When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty to them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has almost the embodiment of a prayer.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Photography, Prayer, Taken

  Julia Margaret Cameron, Anita Ventura Mozley (1974). “"Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life": Exhibition Held 22 January-10 March 1974, Stanford University Museum of Art”

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• The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Life, Morning, Artist

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• From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Lenses, Firsts, Moments

  Julia Margaret Cameron, Anita Ventura Mozley (1974). “"Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life": Exhibition Held 22 January-10 March 1974, Stanford University Museum of Art”

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• Personal sympathy has helped me on very much. My husband from first to last has watched every picture with delight, and it is my daily habit to run to him with every glass upon which a fresh glory is newly stamped, and to listen to his enthusiastic applause. This habit of running into the dining-room with my wet pictures has stained such an immense quantity of table linen with nitrate of silver, indelible stains, that I should have been banished from any less indulgent household.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Running, Husband, Glasses

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