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Quotes by Photographer
"I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."
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"What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace."
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"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
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"I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious."
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"I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life."
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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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"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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"Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique."
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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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"No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was."
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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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"Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight."
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"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death."
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"Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash."
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"Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that."
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"I didn't have any interest in traditional art."
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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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"Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be."
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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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"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."
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"I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it."
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"Just advertising departments with legs and high heels."
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"Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence."
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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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"I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go,' and I went."
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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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"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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"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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"To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society."
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"You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America."
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"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth."
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"Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it."
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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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"There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed."
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"That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal."
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"The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images."
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