When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
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There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
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We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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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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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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