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Quotes by Photographer
"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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"They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left."
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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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"My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is."
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"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."
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"I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father."
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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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"My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be."
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"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."
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"I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree."
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"I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied."
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"Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors."
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"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
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"Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions."
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"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things."
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"I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know."
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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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"I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess."
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"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter."
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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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"The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality."
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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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"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
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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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"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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"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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"I try and play 2 or 3 times a week to stay on my game."
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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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"What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture."
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"Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood."
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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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"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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"I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead."
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"If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work."
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"Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know."
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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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"My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished."
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"Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that."
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"The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition."
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"I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits."
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"Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick."
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"My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be."
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"We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently."
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"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
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"But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group."
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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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