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"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past."
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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."
"If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up."
"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."
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"The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective."
"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself."
"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death."
"There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own."
"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past."
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