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"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."
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"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
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"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."
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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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"I've been working with photography for many years."
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"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter."
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"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."
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"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
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"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
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"In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative."
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"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."
Romance

"I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it."
Art

"Christianity made us think there's one heaven."
Christianity

"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."
Photography

"It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171)."
Absurdity

"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."
Desire

"Home is a desk. The amalgamation of a dream. Home is the cats, my books, and my work never done. All the lost things that may one day call to me, the faces of my children who will one day call to me. Maybe we can't draw flesh from reverie nor retrieve a dusty spur, but we can gather the dream itself and bring it back uniquely whole."
Home

"Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply."
Art

"In Washington Square, one could still feel the characters of Henry James and the presence of the author himself. Entering the perimeters of the white arch, one was greeted by the sounds of bongos and acoustic guitars, protest singers, political arguments, activists leafleting, older chess players challenged by the young. This open atmosphere was something I had not experienced, simple freedom that did not seem to be oppressive to anyone."
Freedom

"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."
Insight
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