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Norman Seeff Quotes

born 1939 South Africa

Norman Seeff (born 5 March 1939) is a South African photographer and filmmaker. Since moving to the United States in 1969, his work has been focused on the exploration of human creativity and the inner dynamics of the creative process.

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Random Norman Seeff quote

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“Every act of creation is an act of destruction.”

I didn’t have a language for it at the time, but when you say “intimacy” that’s kind of another way of saying “authenticity.”

”True creators must have this absolute, unwavering adherence to the face that they want to authentically connect in an honest way with someone.”

I am a person who uses the vehicle of photography to do what I do. I am an explorer of the unknown on the journey of creativity and how that relates to why people create their personal stories.

I think that if your work has an emotional impact and people look at it and they feel like through your eyes, they are experiencing what you are experiencing, then you are connecting your perception to their perception.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Norman Seeff (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.