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Patti Smith Musician
Photographer

"I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision."

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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
Photographer

"The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
Photographer

"Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
Photographer

"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything."

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