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"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."
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"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"

"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."

"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."

"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."

"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."

"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"

"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."

"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."

"Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm."

"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."
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"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."

"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."
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