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Quotes by Photographer
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."
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"The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me."
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"A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people."
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"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
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"Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most."
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"People want security in this insecure world."
25
"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past."
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"It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique."
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"My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm."
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"A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was."
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"I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones."
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"I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me."
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"Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil."
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"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."
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"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."
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"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."
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"We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center."
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"I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love."
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"Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping."
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"There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter."
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"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."
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"People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film."
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"The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda."
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"People have to find ways of explaining the work."
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"I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways."
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"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
12
"I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed."
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"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination."
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"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
12
"When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune."
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"Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual."
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"The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told."
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"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street."
Life,
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"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything."
11
"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph."
Want,
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"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can."
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"Wherever there is light, one can photograph."
10
"Beauty and the devil are the same thing."
10
"Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness."
10
"Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures."
10
"Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time."
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"Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
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"To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step."
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"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."
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"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter."
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"If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work."
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"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself."
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"A very subtle difference can make the picture or not."
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