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"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
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"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."
"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection."
"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."
"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
"My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing."
"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."
"Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images."
"And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it."
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"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."
"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."
"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit."
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