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Quotes by Photographer
"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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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 used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera."
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"The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs."
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"I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense."
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"I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen."
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"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."
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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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"As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance."
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"Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment."
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"There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me."
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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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"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory."
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"I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element."
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"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination."
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"Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics."
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"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection."
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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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"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit."
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"Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter."
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"An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine."
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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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"These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message."
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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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"I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected."
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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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"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."
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"When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that."
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"I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position."
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"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,
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"Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures."
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"The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is."
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"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."
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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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"Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts."
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"Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time."
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"I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists."
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"My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea."
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