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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."
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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."
"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?"
"I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck."
"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
"For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom."
"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."
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"If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that."
"While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story."
"When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth."
"Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman."
"It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant."
"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."
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