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Quotes by Photographer
"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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"It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time."
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"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."
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"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man."
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"The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera."
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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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"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."
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"From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour."
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"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."
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"I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children."
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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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"Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare."
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"I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night."
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"If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live."
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"My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere."
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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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"I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture."
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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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"I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied."
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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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"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive."
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"My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph."
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"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."
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"When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things."
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"I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer."
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"Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts."
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"They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness."
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"The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition."
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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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"It's great to hear from people who have been touched by these songs. It has been good to know that the Lord is using this in ways I am not even aware of."
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"And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb."
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"I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid."
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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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"I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected."
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"He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes."
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"It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal."
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"I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality."
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"I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help."
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"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."
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"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
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"Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay."
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"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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"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding."
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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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