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Quotes by Photographer
"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out."
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"Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives."
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"Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell."
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"I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer."
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"The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart."
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"I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous."
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"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."
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"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."
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"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
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"You always wonder if you can make plays at the end."
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"My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph."
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"When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things."
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"Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts."
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"They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness."
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"I always thought security was a joke at New York airports, and in U.S. airports to begin with. You can go through any European or Middle Eastern airport and things are a lot tougher."
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"If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better."
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"It's great to hear from people who have been touched by these songs. It has been good to know that the Lord is using this in ways I am not even aware of."
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"That's not to say that some day I won't go outside again, but I'm having a great time working on this process."
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"I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable."
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"I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it."
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"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding."
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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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"Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees."
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"When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that."
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"I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me."
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"There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know."
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"I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator."
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"Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field."
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"I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down."
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"With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will."
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"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
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"I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being."
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"I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me."
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"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."
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"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here."
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"When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation."
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"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?"
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"The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species."
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"As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance."
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"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."
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"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that."
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"Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world."
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