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"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
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"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."
"The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt."
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
"During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
"To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."
"Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick."
"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv."
"The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality."
"Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes."
"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."
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