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"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."
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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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"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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"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."
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"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."
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"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."
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"Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true."
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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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"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
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"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
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"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
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"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
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"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."
Photography

"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life."
Life

"When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."
Memory

"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent."
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"It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease."
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"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
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"I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."
People

"I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer."
Art
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