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Photography Quotes
"Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one."
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"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."
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"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection."
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"I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations."
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"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."
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"I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality."
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"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."
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"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."
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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
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"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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"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."
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"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
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"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."
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"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
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"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
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