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Quotes by Photographer
"But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating."
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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."
48
"They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left."
48
"Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood."
48
"I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."
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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."
48
"If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live."
48
"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."
48
"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."
48
"It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game."
48
"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."
48
"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,
48
"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."
48
"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."
48
"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore."
47
"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."
47
"The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved."
47
"I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without."
Work,
47
"One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it."
47
"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here."
47
"When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing."
47
"I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important."
47
"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."
47
"I don't think any collector knows his true motivation."
47
"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."
47
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
47
"In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on."
47
"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."
47
"I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part."
47
"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."
47
"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."
46
"The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted."
46
"Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more."
46
"If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art."
46
"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."
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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."
46
"If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work."
46
"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."
46
"I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention."
46
"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."
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"Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me."
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"I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!"
Soul,
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"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."
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"My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers."
Work,
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"If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity."
46
"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive."
46
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian."
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