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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 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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"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."
"I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough."
"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."
"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter."
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