"Be like a rose -
Beautiful to those who appreciate your talents
and a prick to those who don't."
"Absent imagination and artistic vision,
we are blind to the wonders of creation."
"Naked is a human commodity.
Nudity is God's art."
"When women pose thoughtfully and artistically
- in nothing but their bare skin - they find themselves.
They discover that they are truly alive. They become a nude."
"A woman or man dare not be called a worthy model
so long as they are ignorant of the spontaneous nature of art."
"Anyone that cannot have fun in the nude deserves to be fully clothed all the time."
"Be focused to become accomplished."
"Why should I create a common portrait or landscape that anyone may recognize,
when the nude allows me to expose the subject in a way that very few may otherwise ever see?"
"Older models are not kindly regarded as 'mature'
when their bare beauty is so timeless."
"Professionals create beautiful art in collaboration with like-minded professionals.
Amateurs struggle with the mirage of genius while working with deluded fools."
"The key to being focused
is to intensely enjoy whatever you are doing."
"Photography is my job.
The creation of beautiful fine art is my passion."
"Photograph what makes you happy.
It may not have value to anyone else,
but it will have value to you."
"The best way to inspire others?
Lead by example in order to increase their expectations."
"Historically, the nude has been the force driving the development of new forms of art.
People are anxious to see the nude human form displayed in new and exciting ways."
"Education is no substitute for pure raw talent.
However, it is a good foundation on which talent may build."
"Allowing painters and sculptors to judge photography as an art form
just gives them permission to discredit a modern visual artform they
cannot understand and mostly resent."
"If you simply want to become a famous photographer, go to New York.
Facetime, not originality, has allowed many mediocre to become famous.
But for the artistically inclined visionary there's a bigger world out
there full of fresh, creative opportunities and discoveries."
"Nudity in art is about getting back to true basics."
"Models limiting themselves to implied nudity
tend to do a half-assed job."
"Paperwork is repressive. It has been devised as a control by those that cannot create
anything else with the solitary objective of draining desire, energy, and time
in order to prevent the truly creative among us from creating anything greater."
"Recent experience has exposed a great irony in the modern artist/model marketplace.
The extraordinary models that I would regard hiring to appear in my personal portfolio
invariably offer to pose nude for me purely in exchange for sharing the undeniable beauty,
excitement, and enjoyment of the creative process as understood by the artistically accomplished.
Models that are not worthy to be hired invariably, consistently demand an exorbitant fee for
their giftless, ordinary bodies."
"The past is history. As a photographer,
you are only as good as your next assignment."
