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"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
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"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"

"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."

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

"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."

"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."

"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."

"My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing."

"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."

"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."

"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
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"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."

"Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate."
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