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A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.
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Camera Determination Photographer Picture
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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Believe Music Photography
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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Myself Paint Photograph
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Economic Myself Person Work
I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don’t use these modern cameras which break down all the time !
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Camera Direction Leadership Time
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
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Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
If I’d had the nerve, I’d have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn’t, I became a photographer.
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Funny Job Photograph Profession Thief
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination. I photograph the things I don’t want to paint, things that are already in existence.
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Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
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Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Curiosity Information Myself Nature Technique Willing
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer

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