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Quotes by Photographer
"There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations."
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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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"My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it."
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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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"Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera."
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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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"I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same."
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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 became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill."
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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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"No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way."
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"It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!"
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"I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better."
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"The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography."
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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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"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."
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"One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know."
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"I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art."
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"Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe."
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"Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you."
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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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"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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"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
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"Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters."
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"The beauty of the past belongs to the past."
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"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now."
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"I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting."
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"The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life."
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