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Quotes by Photographer
"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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"My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional."
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"In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions."
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"I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me."
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"Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love."
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"I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave."
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"Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously."
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"It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease."
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"I just want to be written about as a normal artist."
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"And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment."
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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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"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."
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"What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything."
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"I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people."
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"He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes."
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"I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality."
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"It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room."
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"I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill."
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"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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"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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"But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived."
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"I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist."
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"I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process."
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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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"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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"You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years."
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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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"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."
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"Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer."
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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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"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man."
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"I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same."
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"I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature."
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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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"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'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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"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 never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help."
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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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"As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to."
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"Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself."
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"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding."
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"I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time."
Time,
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"Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone."
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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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"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
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"My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was."
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"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see."
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