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" A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera. "
See
Learning
Camera
" A camera teaches you how to see without a camera. "
See
How
Camera
" A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph. "
Photograph
Factual
Documentary
" I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera. "
Camera
Living
Believe
" I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product. "
Call
I Believe
Believe
" I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it. "
Courage
Unexpected
Quality
" It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque. "
Photograph
Obviously
Enough
" No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually. "
Closely
Itself
Ever
" One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. "
Blind
Camera
Though
" Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. "
Still
Time
Art
" Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate. "
Work
You
Love
" Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er. "
Artist
See
Professional
" Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit. "
Things
Spirit
Human Spirit
" The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. "
Instrument
Camera
See
" The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why. "
Find
Better
You
" The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. "
Unattainable
Life
Enormous
" The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes. "
Words
Own
You
" To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false. "
Ahead
You
Own
" While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. "
Own
More
Nothing
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