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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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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
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"I've got a great collection of photography."
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"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
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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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"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."
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"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
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"I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck."
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
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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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"For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom."
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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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"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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"Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be."
Work
"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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"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."
Photography
"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."
Nothing
"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."
Photography
"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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"I see no reason for recording the obvious."
Obvious
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