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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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"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
"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."
"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."
"Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer."
"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."
"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."
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"Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur."
"We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant."
"I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough."
"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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