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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.
- Nov 07, 2020
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.
- Imagination
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I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
- Deals
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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.
- Photograph
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- Nov 07, 2020
To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
- Eyes
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The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art has to address eternal issues.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.
- Flak
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020