When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.
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My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
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Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
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In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
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The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
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In a portrait, I
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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
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Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
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In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without.
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