"We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going."

Challenge, Magic

14

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going."

Exlpore more Challenge quotes

"When faced with a hurdle then give it all you've got to jump over it because it can't be done in two stages."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Challenge, Hurdle, Jump, Effort, Stages

"Have they known scorn like youFive cellars down?"

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author

Challenge, Experience, Learning, Emotion, Resilience

"For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Challenge, Happiness, Path, Struggle, Truth

"Nothing is easy, and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Challenge, Difficulty, Effort, Work, Persistence

"It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist."

John Green, American Author

Challenge, Dignity, Loss, Survival, Hope

"It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Challenge, Difficulty, Life, Choice, Play

"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast."

John Green, American Author

Challenge, Escape, Life, Determination, Hope

"Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?"

Robert Jordan, American Author

Challenge, Bravery, Recklessness, Danger, Foolishness

"There is no pleasure in fighting a weak opponent."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Challenge, Pleasure, Fight, Strength, Victory

"Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.And eaten their dinners."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Challenge, Adventure, Risk, Rebellion, Survival

Explore more quotes by John Sexton

"It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include."

Art, Right, Trying

"We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going."

Challenge, Magic

"So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera."

Work, Being, Photography

"And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense."

Sense, Trying

"It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming."

Success, Age, Results

"It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual."

Experience, People, Inspiring

"I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying."

Experience, Months, Photography, Trying

"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."

Being,

"There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent."

Job, Manipulation

"I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography."

Life, Love, Environment, Photography