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Quotes by Photographer
"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."
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"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."
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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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"Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood."
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"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."
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"I don't think any collector knows his true motivation."
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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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"Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight."
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"I didn't have any interest in traditional art."
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"I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree."
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"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
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"There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed."
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"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
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"Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate."
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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."
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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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"I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator."
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"I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream."
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"Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats."
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"The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved."
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"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
36
"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."
36
"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here."
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"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."
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"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
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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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"My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."
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"In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors."
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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."
36
"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly."
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"Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics."
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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."
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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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"I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques."
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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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"The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year."
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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."
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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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"No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was."
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"Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me."
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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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