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Quotes by Photographer
"The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit."
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"The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera."
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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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"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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"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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"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement."
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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 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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"The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!"
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"There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will."
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"I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light."
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"I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church."
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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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"I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails."
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"I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice."
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"Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical."
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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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"I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
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"I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me."
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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 hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time."
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"I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light."
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"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."
Act,
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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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"I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree."
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"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."
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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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"One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself."
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"I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator."
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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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"I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame."
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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 am an artist first and a photographer second."
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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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"You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth."
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"I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked."
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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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"Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa."
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"I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person."
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