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• Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that…
• Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I…
• Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.
• Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.
• I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
• To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant…
• An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife…
• The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle…
• I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
• How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.
• All art is based on non-conformity.
• I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

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