"A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer."
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"A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?"
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"True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists."
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"I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes."
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"Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you."
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"Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis."
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"Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe."
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"If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of other people who would love to put words in your mouth."
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"Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an interference pattern with the image. Who he is, what he believes, not only becomes important to know intellectually, but also becomes revealed emotionally and visibly through a body of work."
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"Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new camera into the world."
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"A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living."
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"Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful."
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"Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world from which they were taken."
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"I was offered $100,000 for a print. Then I woke up."
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"If you are bored with your own photography you are really bored with what you are photographing, so pick a new subject about which you are knowledgeable and enthusiastic."
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"My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph."
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"If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?"
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"Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard."
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"I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . ."
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"We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.""
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