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"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."
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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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"I've been working with photography for many years."
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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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"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."
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"Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it."
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"Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others."
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"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."
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"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful."
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"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste."
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"I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up."
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"My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything."
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"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
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"A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it."
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