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"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
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"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."
"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."
"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."
"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
"Wherever there is light, one can photograph."
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"There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism."
"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth."
"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man."
"I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself."
"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding."
"When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself."
"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."
"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
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