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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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"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."
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"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
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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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"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."
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"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
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"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
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"I've been working with photography for many years."
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"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter."
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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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"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."
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"God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so."
God
"In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell."
Violence
"Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it."
Dance
"Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts."
Cultural
"I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind."
Ability
"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."
Work
"We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil."
God
"The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube."
Creativity
"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing."
Man
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