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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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"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."
Media
"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."
Art
"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."
Problems
"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material."
Fear
"Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others."
Ambition
"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."
Art
"Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits."
Health
"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."
Success
"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste."
Literature
"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
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"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
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"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."
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"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."
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"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."
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"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
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"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
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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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"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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