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"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."
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"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."
"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."
"Wherever there is light, one can photograph."
"The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much."
"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."
"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."
"I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing."
"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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"In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is."
"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."
"These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition."
"For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty."
"If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason."
"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."
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