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Quotes by Photographer
"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."
14
"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."
14
"I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person."
13
"When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me."
13
"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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"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 need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me."
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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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"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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"The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs."
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"I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful."
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"I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave."
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"I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph."
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"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."
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"I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please."
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"I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame."
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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."
Want,
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"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."
13
"The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house."
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"When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist."
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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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"To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society."
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"There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record."
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"These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me."
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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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"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding."
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"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
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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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"When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by."
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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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"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory."
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"During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
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"I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."
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"I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made."
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"As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to."
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"I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me."
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"I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it."
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"When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion."
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"One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself."
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"I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious."
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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."
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"They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure."
Old,
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"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
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"Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation."
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