"Our best pictures happen by grace."
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"The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes."
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"For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place... [Photography] offered a way to contain memories, to overcome loss, to keep history."
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"At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later."
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"The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field."
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"'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye closes, thereby permitting half the brain to sleep.' Is this what happens when photographers close one eye to look through a viewfinder? If so, they might be operating with only half a brain. Perhaps that explains."
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"The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart."
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"The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect."
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"Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence."
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"All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable."
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"To collect photographs is to collect the world."
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"WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay."
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"I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games."
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"Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One amateur prefers the family group, another bathing scenes, another cows upon an alp, or kittens held upside down in the arms of a black-faced child. The tendency to choose one subject rather than another indicates the photographer's temperament. Nevertheless, his passion is for photography rather than for selection, a kitten will serve when no cows are available."
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"My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture"
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"Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography."
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"Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form."
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"...everything looks worse in black and white."
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"She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'"
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