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"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
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"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery."
"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."
"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."
"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."
"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."
"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."
"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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"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."
"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."
"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth."
"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
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