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"I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing."
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"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."
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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."
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"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."
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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
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"Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer."
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"The darkroom is just the means to an end."
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"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."
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"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
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"It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows."
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"Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment."
People
"I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator."
Emotional
"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."
Journalism
"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."
Photography
"My first thought is always of light."
Thought
"A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy."
People
"The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible."
Being
"I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light."
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"These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message."
Environment
"There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too."
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