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Quotes by Photographer
"Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body."
Body,
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"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain."
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"I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead."
37
"Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera."
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"I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel."
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"The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible."
37
"What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them."
37
"I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same."
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"We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs."
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"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
37
"My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph."
37
"There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants."
37
"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street."
Life,
37
"Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful."
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"I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men."
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"The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute."
37
"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."
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"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
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"I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist."
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"My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was."
36
"I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me."
36
"Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love."
36
"A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity."
36
"I just want to be written about as a normal artist."
36
"The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species."
36
"Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare."
36
"They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness."
36
"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."
36
"I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality."
36
"Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."
36
"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding."
36
"In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that."
36
"I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time."
Time,
36
"I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill."
36
"I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself."
35
"I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave."
35
"We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?"
35
"I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people."
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"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
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"Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group."
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"I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me."
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"I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so."
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"That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is."
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"Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself."
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"This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there."
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"I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay."
35
"After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed."
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