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Quotes by Photographer
"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 am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied."
21
"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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"My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional."
21
"I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it."
20
"All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead."
20
"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."
20
"And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much."
20
"One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist."
20
"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."
20
"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."
20
"I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace."
20
"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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"Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me."
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"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
20
"Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that."
20
"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."
20
"The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there."
Kids,
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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."
20
"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
20
"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."
20
"A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it."
20
"Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions."
20
"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding."
20
"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."
20
"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."
20
"My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be."
20
"Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag."
Work,
20
"I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse."
20
"We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently."
20
"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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"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."
20
"A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population."
20
"When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me."
19
"Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence."
19
"Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter."
19
"I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me."
19
"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."
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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."
19
"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."
19
"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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"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."
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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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"I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead."
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