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Quotes by Photographer
"All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse."
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"When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God."
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"The goal of art was the vital expression of self."
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"Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash."
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"When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."
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"No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do."
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"I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me."
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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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"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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"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
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"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them."
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"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement."
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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."
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"I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men."
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"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."
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"What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world."
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"That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target."
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"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."
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"I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality."
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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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"Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will."
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"Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."
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"The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl."
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"I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay."
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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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"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've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create."
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"But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived."
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"Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa."
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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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"My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was."
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"Just advertising departments with legs and high heels."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be."
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"The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art."
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"No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life."
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"I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked."
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"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out."
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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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"Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell."
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