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"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."
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"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
"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."
"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."
"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."
"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
"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."
"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."
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"Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be."
"Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual."
"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."
"My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea."
"I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without."
"There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me."
"Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately."
"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."
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