"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."
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"Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs"
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"I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster."
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"I was in the right place at the right time."
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"There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph."
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"What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce."
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"Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible."
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"Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts."
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"It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel."
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"I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography."
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"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
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"The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!"
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"Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures."
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"When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!"
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"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
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"Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins."
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"Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance."
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"There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see."
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"Very often I say to myself: I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with. For nothing to happen, something has to happen first."
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"I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane."
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