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"To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."
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"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes."
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"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
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"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."
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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
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"True love asks no question of the heart. It knows with surety."
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"O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?"
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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."
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"The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth."
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"But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer."
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"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."
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"Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation."
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"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory."
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"During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
Work
"Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes."
Essence
"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv."
Detail
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
Earth
"The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality."
Interest
"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
Joy
"The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt."
Portrait
"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
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