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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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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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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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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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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 live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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