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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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"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
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"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."
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"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
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"I've got a great collection of photography."
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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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"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."
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"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."
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"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."
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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
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"Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true."
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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."
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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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"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."
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"I see no reason for recording the obvious."
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"My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea."
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"Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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