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Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.
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The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.
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When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
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The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
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Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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You don't make a photograph just with a camera
