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"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."
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"They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with."
"One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires."
"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."
"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
"Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs."
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"We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary."
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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."
"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
"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."
"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."
"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."
"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth."
"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."
"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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