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"The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality."
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"A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials."
"I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest."
"A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest."
"The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts."
"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest."
"I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does."
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"Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes."
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory."
"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
"The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality."
"To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."
"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."
"The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt."
"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."
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