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"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."

"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."

"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."

"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."

"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."

"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."

"Wherever there is light, one can photograph."

"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."

"Mediante la fotografAa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicion fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusion de mi pasado."

"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
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"Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much."

"To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step."

"I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel."

"What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything."

"No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do."
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