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Quotes by Photographer
"Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately."
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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."
42
"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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"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself."
42
"When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued."
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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."
42
"The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!"
42
"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."
41
"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."
41
"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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"I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me."
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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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"Beauty and the devil are the same thing."
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"I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."
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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."
41
"I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened."
41
"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive."
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"Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical."
41
"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
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"It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game."
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"You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold."
Gold,
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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."
41
"I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence."
41
"I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person."
40
"Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence."
40
"I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us."
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"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
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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 am an artist first and a photographer second."
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"It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country."
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"People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film."
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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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"You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth."
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"I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church."
40
"Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes."
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"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."
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"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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"All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in."
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"If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live."
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"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement."
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"I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake."
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"I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer."
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"Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur."
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"Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa."
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"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore."
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