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Quotes by Photographer
"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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"I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process."
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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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"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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"The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much."
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"Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much."
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"All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead."
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"Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats."
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"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information."
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"Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love."
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"The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved."
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"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me."
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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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"I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring."
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"I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church."
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"I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight."
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"And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment."
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"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
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"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery."
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"I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits."
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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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"I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself."
Work,
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"Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate."
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"This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there."
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"It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
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"I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious."
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"I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess."
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"There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism."
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"When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself."
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"It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment."
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"I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us."
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"If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers."
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"And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much."
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"I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go,' and I went."
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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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"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."
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"It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country."
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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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"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."
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"My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be."
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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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"I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me."
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"I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature."
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"Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions."
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