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Quotes by Photographer
"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
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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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"It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness."
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"I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue."
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"People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris."
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"My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing."
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"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore."
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"In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality."
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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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"Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts."
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"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
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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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"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."
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"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."
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"Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well."
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"I try and play 2 or 3 times a week to stay on my game."
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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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"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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"My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea."
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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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"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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"I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave."
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"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit."
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"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
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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 just want to be written about as a normal artist."
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"Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be."
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"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."
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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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"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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"We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit."
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"The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images."
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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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"I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked."
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"What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer."
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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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"To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."
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"The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible."
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"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."
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"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."
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"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen."
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"We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant."
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"The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt."
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"All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse."
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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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"It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time."
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