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Quotes by Photographer
"All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse."
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"Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color."
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"The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl."
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"Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe."
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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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"It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness."
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"The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep."
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"I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night."
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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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"You always wonder if you can make plays at the end."
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"What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer."
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"Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you."
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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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"Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees."
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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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"The beauty of the past belongs to the past."
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"No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny."
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"Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will."
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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 cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art."
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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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"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."
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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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"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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"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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"The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life."
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