"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."
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"Basically I'm always looking for things. Any good photographer should always be looking for something, you know."
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"Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force."
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"Success is when the checks don’t bounce."
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"I like boring things."
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"I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed."
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"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
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"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces."
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"You don't make a photograph just with a camera"
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"The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates."
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"A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary."
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"The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature."
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"A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels..."
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"It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument."
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"There's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily and each picture is better than the next, and then you sort of level off and that's when you realize that it's not that each picture is better then the next, it's that each picture up's the ante. And that every time you take one good picture, the next one has got to be better."
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"The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet."
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"A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter."
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"Contrast is what makes photography interesting."
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"There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning."
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"A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar."
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