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"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."
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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
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"I've got a great collection of photography."
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"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
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"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."
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"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."
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"Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images."
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"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."
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"I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality."
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"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
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"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
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"Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you."
Home
"That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal."
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"Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics."
Business
"I like form and shape and strength in pictures."
Strength
"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."
Cultural
"Many people who excel are self-taught."
People
"I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me."
Art
"I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay."
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"I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father."
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"I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element."
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