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Quotes by Photographer
"Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions."
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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 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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"I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied."
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"I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations."
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"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
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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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"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
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"What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed."
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"I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person."
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"I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life."
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"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv."
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"Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation."
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"Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm."
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"You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper."
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"Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence."
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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 I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer."
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"The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention."
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"I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me."
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"The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs."
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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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"But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating."
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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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"You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy."
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"It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me."
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"Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images."
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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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"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
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"I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without."
Work,
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"They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left."
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"My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is."
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"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."
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"I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please."
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"I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame."
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"I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing."
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"One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it."
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"A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy."
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"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."
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"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."
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"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
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"You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years."
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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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"I don't think any collector knows his true motivation."
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"It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian."
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"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."
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"I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself."
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"In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on."
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