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Quotes by Photographer
"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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"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."
8
"Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do."
8
"Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment."
8
"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."
8
"There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed."
8
"The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy."
8
"Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates."
8
"The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images."
8
"I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough."
Work,
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"Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts."
8
"The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony."
8
"Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it."
8
"The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is."
8
"It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress."
7
"But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another."
7
"I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting."
7
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
7
"It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease."
7
"I just want to be written about as a normal artist."
7
"The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative."
7
"I am an artist first and a photographer second."
7
"I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in."
7
"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."
7
"The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there."
Kids,
7
"The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules."
7
"That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion."
7
"I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul."
7
"The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day."
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"A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it."
7
"You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak."
7
"I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part."
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"If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there."
7
"We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive."
Now,
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"I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time."
Time,
7
"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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"I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist."
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"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see."
6
"I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself."
6
"No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny."
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