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"I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate."
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"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
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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 never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."
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"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."
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"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."
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"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."
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"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
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"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery."
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"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."
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"I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know."
Art
"I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography."
Control
"I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all."
Time
"In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio."
Time
"Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish."
Time
"I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that."
Life
"I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time."
Time
"When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today."
War
"When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us."
Work
"Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited."
Knowledge
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