When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things. Wynn Bullock More Quotes by Wynn Bullock More Quotes From Wynn Bullock Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say. Wynn Bullock nature teacher inspirational At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted. Wynn Bullock photography creative mean Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you. Wynn Bullock important photography thinking Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy. Wynn Bullock creativity design joy The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same. Wynn Bullock photography helping-others integrity I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature. Wynn Bullock marijuana weed photography Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived. Wynn Bullock photography waiting lying What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving. Wynn Bullock levels photography real A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintings, and sculptures are symbols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves. Wynn Bullock sculpture photography thinking There is nothing mysterious about space-time. Every speck of matter, every idea, is a space-time event. We cannot experience anything or conceive of anything that exists outside of space-time. Just as experience precedes all awareness and creative expression, the visual language of our photographs should ever more strongly express the fourth dimensional structure of the real world. Wynn Bullock space photography real Light to me is perhaps the most profound truth in the universe. My thinking has been deeply affected by the belief everything is some form of radiant energy. Wynn Bullock light profound thinking If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead. Wynn Bullock future philosophy life For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life. Wynn Bullock photography photographer way Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully. Wynn Bullock body tree bird You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving. Wynn Bullock new-ways reality way The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye. It can see by invisible light. It can see in the past, present, and future. Instead of using the camera only to reproduce objects, I wanted to use it to make what is invisible to the eye - visible. Wynn Bullock eye photography past For me a nude photograph should be erotic, not devoid of emotion. The body is a sensual thing, sensuality being one of its most beautiful and meaningful qualities. Wynn Bullock photography beautiful meaningful Everything went together perfectly, and this is what I mean by knowing. I didn't have to analyze anything. I just recognized what was in front of me. All I had to do was set up and take the picture. Wynn Bullock photography knowing mean In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling of the reality of existence that lies mysteriously and invisibly beneath its surface, I feel I have succeeded. At their best, photographs as symbols not only serve to help illuminate some of the darkness of the unknown, they also serve to lessen the fears that too often accompany the journeys from the known to the unknown. Wynn Bullock photography journey lying As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things I was photographing not as objects but as events. Working to develop my skills of perceiving and symbolizing these event qualities, I discovered the principle of opposites. When, for example, I photographed the smooth, luminous body of a woman behind a dirty cobwebbed window, I found that the qualities of each event were enhanced and the universal forces which they manifested were more powerfully evoked. Wynn Bullock photography unique dirty
