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Quotes by Photographer
"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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"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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"They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left."
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"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
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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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"Beauty and the devil are the same thing."
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"The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera."
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"There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph."
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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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"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
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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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"Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical."
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"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
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"We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness."
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"I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice."
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"I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess."
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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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"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
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"I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done."
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"I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us."
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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 will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."
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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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"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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"When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God."
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"If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist."
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"If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live."
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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 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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"We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either."
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"Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures."
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"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
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"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."
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"Just advertising departments with legs and high heels."
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"Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time."
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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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"With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing."
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"It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse."
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"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain."
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"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."
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"Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood."
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"And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers."
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"I am an artist first and a photographer second."
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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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