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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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"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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"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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"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
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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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"I've got a great collection of photography."
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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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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."
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"You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America."
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"My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."
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"I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men."
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"I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead."
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"I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people."
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"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."
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"I don't know what love means."
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"When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."
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"I hate big models."
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