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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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"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
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"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."
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"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."
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"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."
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"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."
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"I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality."
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"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
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"Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer."
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"I've got a great collection of photography."
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"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."
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"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."
Optimism
"And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble."
Movies
"I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style."
Style
"If I couldn't read, I couldn't live."
Reading
"At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power."
Power
"Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films."
Opportunity
"I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives."
People
"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."
Thought
"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."
World
"So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less."
Art
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