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"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"

"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."

"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."

"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."

"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."

"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."

"Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true."

"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."

"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?"

"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
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"That's not to say that some day I won't go outside again, but I'm having a great time working on this process."

"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."

"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."

"I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part."
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