It’s a challenge to look at the obvious and see something more. Not every common object will rise up off the page just because you take its picture. 
– Michael Levin

From time to time we all get bored or run down by the routine of existence. Make art! Look at the world.  Look – really look – at anything and and you cannot help but find something curious and engaging. 
– Brooks Jensen

Discussion of “How To” on any level avoids the necessity of making contact with what the photograph reports or evokes. Bluffers sometimes resort to this.
– Minor White