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Quotes by Photographer
"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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"They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure."
Old,
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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."
2
"Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone."
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"The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality."
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"Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks I won't do it."
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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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"Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur."
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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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"Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe."
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"But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group."
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"I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist."
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"I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques."
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"I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera."
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"It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress."
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"I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas."
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"No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way."
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"Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you."
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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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"There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed."
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"I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting."
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"Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously."
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"I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense."
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"One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist."
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"It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease."
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"Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood."
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"My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it."
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"And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers."
1
"I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous."
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"When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable."
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"The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year."
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"Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself."
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"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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"The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species."
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"Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know."
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"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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"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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"No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was."
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"As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance."
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"Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me."
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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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"Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses."
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