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"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."
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"Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant."
"I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation."
"Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution."
"When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative."
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."
"The oldest theory of contract is I think negative."
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"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."
"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."
"These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me."
"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
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