"The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it."
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"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
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"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."
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"The eye should learn to listen before it looks."
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"Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire."
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"If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography - the mendacity of photography. It’s got to have some kind of peculiarity in it, or it’s not interesting to me."
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"Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference."
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"There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes."
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"What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting."
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"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
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"We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see."
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"Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out."
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"Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life."
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"A good photograph is knowing where to stand."
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"If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?"
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"I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve."
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"If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented."
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"For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me in my daily life and all kinds of things I see. Every new project is a new challenge and my goal is to realize them as realistic as possible."
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"The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to."
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"The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler."
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