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"Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true."
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"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."

"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."

"For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom."

"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."

"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."

"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."

"Wherever there is light, one can photograph."

"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"

"George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that."

"It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows."
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"It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!"

"I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important."
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