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> [When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and the clock is ticking and it's costly and I enter into a super-heightened state of mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/when-i-go-up-especially-if-i-m-paying-for-a-small-helicopter-and/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

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## More by Michael Light

> [I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/i-m-attracted-to-the-garden-without-a-doubt-but-i-always-try-and/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

> [The pilot says, "Where do you want to go?" and that's always a rather existential question, because naturally I think a bit about where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/the-pilot-says-where-do-you-want-to-go-and-that-s-always-a-rather/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

> [When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/when-i-go-up-especially-if-i-m-paying-for-a-small-helicopter-and/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

> [I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/i-take-pleasure-in-working-with-the-non-art-photographs-that-reside/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

> [I am a photographer who likes to make images, but I also want to get a sense and understanding of images that have already…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/i-am-a-photographer-who-likes-to-make-images-but-i-also-want-to-get-a/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

> [I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/i-come-at-a-subject-from-a-profoundly-photographic-level-i-am-not/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

> [Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/los-angeles-functions-for-me-as-a-kind-of-holy-template-it-is-postwar/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

> [I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It's very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god's-eye…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/i-have-a-profound-passion-for-the-act-of-flying-it-s-very-freeing/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

> [Flying was certainly formative for me; I have a deep and lasting ease with it as a result.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/flying-was-certainly-formative-for-me-i-have-a-deep-and-lasting-ease/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

> [Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/even-in-this-age-of-digital-manipulation-photographs-continue-to-hold/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

> [I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera, a military…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/i-don-t-particularly-care-about-photographic-authorship-whether-an/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

> [What better way to actually deal with L.A. than to get above it and engage with the horizontality and scale of the basin itself?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/what-better-way-to-actually-deal-with-l-a-than-to-get-above-it-and/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

> [We have not only the right, but a specific duty, to honestly and unflinchingly look at all aspects of our world, both the one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/we-have-not-only-the-right-but-a-specific-duty-to-honestly-and/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

> [I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/i-love-idyllic-places-and-the-kind-of-suspension-of-history-they/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

> [Once one crosses a conceptual threshold of rethinking what nature might or might not be, it can multiply outward radically. The world becomes a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-light/once-one-crosses-a-conceptual-threshold-of-rethinking-what-nature/)

[Michael Light](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-light/)

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