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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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"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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"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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"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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"I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later."
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"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."
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"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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"Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer."
Obsession
"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."
Art
"Alimony is the curse of the writing class."
Finance
"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."
Photography
"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level."
Socialism
"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit."
Dying
"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."
Growth
"When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write."
Reading
"There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be."
Sex
"Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it."
Dance
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