Ivars' photography notes

Corvettes

Perfection is reserved for the gods.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Jay Maisel

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own purposes – your purposes are not the same as others’. I’m not quite sure what he meant, but I like that. I like the way he put it.

You know it's art when the check clears.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is truth.