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"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent."
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."

"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"

"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

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"Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that."

"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."

"My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."

"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."

"I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men."

"I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph."
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