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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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"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
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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."
"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."
"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."
"Wherever there is light, one can photograph."
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
"George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that."
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"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."
"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."
"America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind."
"With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance."
"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."
"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."
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