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Quotes by Photographer
"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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"Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees."
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"I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me."
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"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."
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"We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either."
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"It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game."
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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 cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art."
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"The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!"
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"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter."
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"My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional."
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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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"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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"Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa."
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"I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence."
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"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."
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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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"My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was."
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"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see."
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"When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me."
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"I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself."
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"Just advertising departments with legs and high heels."
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"I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down."
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"In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions."
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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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"No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny."
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"An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine."
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"I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves."
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"Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold."
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"Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body."
Body,
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"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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"With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will."
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"I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra."
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"Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more."
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"I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful."
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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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"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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"A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity."
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"All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot."
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"People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other."
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"I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me."
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"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
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