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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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“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
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“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
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“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
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“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
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“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
― On Photography
― On Photography

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....”
― The House at Riverton
― The House at Riverton

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
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“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”
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“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
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“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.”
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“To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
― The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
― The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers

“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. ”
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet

“Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.
It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human.
Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.”
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It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human.
Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.”
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