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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that!"
Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
"When you hit the target there's no need to crop the picture"
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
"If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up."
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.”
“Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.”
“There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.”
“Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it may be.”
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