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Photography Quotes
"Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer."
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"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."
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"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
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"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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"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
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"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
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"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."
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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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"Mediante la fotografAa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicion fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusion de mi pasado."
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