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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
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"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."

"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."

"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."

"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."

"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."

"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."

"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"

"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."

"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."

"It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows."
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"If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us."

"What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough."
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