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"The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary."
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"I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground."
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"Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism."
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"I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind."
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"It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium."
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"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
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"Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled matter-something vital that we cannot build out of these parts. There is surely something else, some piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and that owes no homage to the sun."
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"I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it."
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"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
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"Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do books that are all on the same subject. That is just because the pictures have piled up on that subject. Finally I realize that I am really interested in it. The pictures make me realize that I am interested in something."
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"Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials."
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"Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life."
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"As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure."
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"While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) — a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be."
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"... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest."
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"Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens."
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"I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view."
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"There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent."
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"When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?"
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