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"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past."
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"Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down."

"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."

"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."

"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."

"Past is aipsom if you learned from the past."

"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened."
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"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 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."

"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 only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past."
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