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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
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"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."

"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."

"I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck."

"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."

"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."

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

"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."

"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."

"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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"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."

"If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us."
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