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Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it....
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Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography;...
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And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence....
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My father used to teach me things. He taught me about photography, how light passed through a lens and created a negative, bleaching out areas on sensitized paper....
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The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life....
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I prefer the difficult path of finding unexpected things and wrestling them....
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I shutter to think how many people are underexposed....
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A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present....
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For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something....
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It’s not that I’m confident, but....
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Serendipity plays an enormous role in my work....
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The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs....
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No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and....
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At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are....
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Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of all? The answer is....
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Yes, photographs are only convincing if the photographer pays attention to the facts of life....
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Mainly, you photograph because it’s fun. It’s serious too....
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When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that....
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..talking about pictures as though you could tell anybody how to take good ones is nuts....
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Where the focus of the photographer's mind is more on the way he is taking the picture....
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You don’t have to pose your camera. The pictures are there....
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A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there -- even if you put them end to end....
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I'm not a collector at heart. I'm never tormented by the longing to possess things. I'm quite happy with my pictures. I've been cohabiting with them for years now and we know each other inside out....
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If I knew how to take a good photograph....
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I don't usually give out advice or recipes, but you must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the way to finishing it....
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A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment....
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For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult....
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You have to let the person who will look at the picture—provided that he isn’t an ass—always walk along that visual path for himself....
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Photographs were more than my livelihood. They were part of my life. The way light fell on a surface never failed to tug at my imagination....
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I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context....
