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“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”

“If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.”

“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.”

“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.”

“Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.”