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"I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium."
"I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."
"We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.""
"Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it."
"All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation."
"My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize."
"The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty."
"Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept."
"It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair."
"Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries just struggle along, then a new one comes along. There are certainly a great number of galleries. I think this argues well for the art but there are, of course, a lot of "phonies" in all the arts."
"All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is."
"Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive."
"Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort."
"I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up."
"The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribute qualities and intentions where they do not belong."
"While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel."
"We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake."
"My wife - she could help me get the negs out!"
"I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it."
"There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form."