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Quotes by Photographer
"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
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"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."
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"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."
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"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."
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"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter."
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"I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me."
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"There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own."
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"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination."
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"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph."
Want,
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"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
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"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."
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"I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight."
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"From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour."
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"I didn't have any interest in traditional art."
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"A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?"
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"I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed."
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"Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera."
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"I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue."
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"At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it."
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"Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information."
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"Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation."
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"On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser."
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"In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors."
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"Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay."
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"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
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"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."
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"I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life."
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"I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others."
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"People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography."
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"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."
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"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."
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"I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention."
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"If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live."
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"We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness."
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"I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall."
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"And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well."
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"When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued."
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"Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures."
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"As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon."
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"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."
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"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."
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"You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it."
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"When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't."
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"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me."
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"I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go,' and I went."
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"Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true."
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"The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective."
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"What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone."
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