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Quotes by Photographer
"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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"I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being."
31
"I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting."
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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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"The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images."
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"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."
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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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"So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way."
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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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"The goal of art was the vital expression of self."
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"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
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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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"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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"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."
31
"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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"There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it."
31
"The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute."
31
"Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."
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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."
31
"But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another."
30
"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."
30
"Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body."
Body,
30
"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."
30
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
30
"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain."
30
"It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!"
30
"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."
30
"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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"I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people."
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"What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them."
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"These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message."
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"This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it."
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"We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs."
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"Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare."
30
"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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"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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"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."
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"This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there."
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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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