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"I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself."
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"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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"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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"I've been working with photography for many years."
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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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"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."
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"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
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"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
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"In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative."
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"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."
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"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."
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"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."
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"There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism."
Optimism
"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding."
Art
"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
Photography
"I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself."
Photography
"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man."
Beauty
"Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants."
Man
"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."
Art
"When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself."
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"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth."
Earth
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