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"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
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"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."
"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."
"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
"Wherever there is light, one can photograph."
"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."
"Mediante la fotografAa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicion fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusion de mi pasado."
"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
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"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."
"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."
"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."
"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."
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