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"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
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"I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

"I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."

"Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark."

"Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock."
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"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."

"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."

"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."

"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."

"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."

"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."

"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
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