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Quotes by Photographer
"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."
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"I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being."
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"I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting."
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"One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist."
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"I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous."
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"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen."
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"Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know."
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"The goal of art was the vital expression of self."
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"Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives."
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"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that."
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"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
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"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."
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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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"If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better."
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"I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself."
Work,
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"I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable."
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"As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to."
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"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."
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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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"It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment."
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"In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions."
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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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"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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"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."
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"This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it."
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"Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants."
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"The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned."
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"I would like them all to enjoy life and try different things until there is something they really like."
Life,
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"I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous."
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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 think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life."
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"What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything."
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"I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits."
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"I always thought security was a joke at New York airports, and in U.S. airports to begin with. You can go through any European or Middle Eastern airport and things are a lot tougher."
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"The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography."
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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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"You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak."
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"That's not to say that some day I won't go outside again, but I'm having a great time working on this process."
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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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"I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it."
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"The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony."
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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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"My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be."
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"My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional."
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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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"I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas."
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