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"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."

"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."

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

"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."

"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."

"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."

"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."

"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."

"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
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"I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves."

"What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone."

"When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing."

"I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed."

"The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house."

"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."
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