I recently found this quote by Anni Albers:
Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials
This speaks to my heart because it’s the way I see photography, so I couldn’t resist adapting it to our art:
Photography is not so much the desire to photograph something as the listening to that which wants to be photographed: the dictation of the light and the scene