"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."

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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."

Patti Smith, American Musician

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"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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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."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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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."

Annie Leibovitz, American Photographer

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"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."

Jim Lehrer, American Journalist

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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."

Ann Beattie, American Writer

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"I've been working with photography for many years."

Leonard Nimoy, American Actor

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"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter."

Alfred Eisenstaedt, American Photographer

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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."

Edward Weston, American Photographer

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"I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind."

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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."

"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"

"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."

"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."

"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."

"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."

"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."

"I've been working with photography for many years."

"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter."

"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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"It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema."

"Photography is a very important part of my life."

"Painting and writing are solitary arts."

"Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems."

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