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"In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative."
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"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery."
"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."
"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."
"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."
"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."
"It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows."
"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."
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"The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house."
"My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds."
"I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful."
"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph."
"If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist."
"What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone."
"Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself."
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