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Quotes by Photographer
"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv."
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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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"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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"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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"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
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"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."
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"I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice."
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"In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative."
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"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."
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"Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors."
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"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."
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"That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target."
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"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
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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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"There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy."
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"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me."
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"The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art."
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"The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera."
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"The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there."
Kids,
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"People have to find ways of explaining the work."
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"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."
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"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."
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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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"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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"I try and play 2 or 3 times a week to stay on my game."
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"My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds."
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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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"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's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal."
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"I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice."
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"Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold."
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"I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra."
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"No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life."
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"I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards."
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"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."
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"There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them."
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"I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing."
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"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."
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"I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing."
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"Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself."
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"One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself."
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"I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess."
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"Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own."
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"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
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"I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves."
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