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"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
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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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"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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"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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"Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true."
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"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."
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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."
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"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
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"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
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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."
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"Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer."
Career
"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."
Photography
"Many people who excel are self-taught."
People
"The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images."
Education
"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."
Photography
"When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history."
History
"Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood."
Blood
"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."
Cultural
"Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you."
Home
"I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques."
Friendship
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