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"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."
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
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"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
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"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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"Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true."
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"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."
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"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
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"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
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"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."
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"I've got a great collection of photography."
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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
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"I see no reason for recording the obvious."
Obvious
"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."
Photography
"There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me."
Nothing
"My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea."
Change
"Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately."
Age
"Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be."
Work
"Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual."
Reason
"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."
Photography
"I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without."
Work
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