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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
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Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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