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"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
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"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery."
"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."
"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."
"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."
"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."
"In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative."
"It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows."
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"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."
"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."
"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."
"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."
"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."
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