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"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth."
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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."
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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
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"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."
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"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."
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"It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth."
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"Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide."
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"When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself."
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"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man."
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"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth."
Earth

"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."
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"There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism."
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"Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants."
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"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding."
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"I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself."
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"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."
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"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
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