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"Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images."
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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process."
Learning
"Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images."
Books
"Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training."
Family
"I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me."
Art
"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination."
Imagination
"But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living."
Nation
"I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits."
Art
"It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me."
Time
"I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits."
Love
"You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years."
Art
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