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- Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.
- The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel…
- The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be…
- The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.
- Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
- Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the wholeness of life…
- My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to…
- There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I…
- Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.…
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