"You don't make a photograph just with a camera"
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"We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion."
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"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit."
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"The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature."
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"The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood."
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"Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events."
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"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."
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"The negative is the score, and the print the performance."
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"It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you."
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"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things."
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"A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels..."
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"I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us."
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"It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument."
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"No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being."
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"To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print."
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"The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster."
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"Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful."
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"I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath."
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"Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real."
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"This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture."
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