"Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese."
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"All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button."
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"Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button."
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"To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self."
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"Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good."
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"I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me."
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"I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is."
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"Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist."
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"The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor."
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"Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing."
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"I could ramble on forever, I just love photography. It's my passion, it drives my family crazy. I live it and breathe it."
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"I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling."
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"Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent."
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"I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a sponge and I had an instinct that athletes have - anticipation. Photography really represents an enormous amount of anticipation - understanding what might be there the next moment and being prepared for it."
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"With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world."
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"Somebody said recently that the best thing a student could do was to get in some shows and publish a book; but nothing about becoming a human being, nothing about having important feelings or concepts of humanity. That's the sort of thing that is bad education. I'd say be a human being first and if you happen to wind up using photography, that's good for photography."
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"The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself."
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"While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during all moments previous to, or preparatory for, the pressing. It does not only operate in the blinding flash of a moment seized; it works all the time. The snatched picture merely cuts across the vein of observable incident or accident which is always beating, whether or not the fingers actually press."
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"Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!"
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"I have always been fascinated by the life cycle, the way skin metamorphoses over time. I am mesmerized by skin and that's why I've been attracted to the nude. I do think people show their soul when they are stripped down psychically. There is something wondrous that happens when we relate on that level - and I am interested in that depth."
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