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"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter."
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"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
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"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."
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"I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer."
"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter."
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