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"In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors."
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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."
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"There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you."
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"Music gives strength to the spirit."
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"Be an artist in everything you do."
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"Let us play the flute of love to spread the music of peace, joy and happiness."
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"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions."
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"Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart."
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"Be an artist, see the beauty not only with your eyes but also with your heart."
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"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
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"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."
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"I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas."
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"Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag."
Work
"I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera."
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"I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid."
Money
"It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room."
Car
"Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks I won't do it."
Money
"I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen."
Love
"The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl."
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"They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure."
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"In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors."
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