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"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."

"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."

"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."

"And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it."

"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery."

"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."

"Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one."

"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."

"Wherever there is light, one can photograph."

"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
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"What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough."

"If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us."
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