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Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ­

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Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

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Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and...more

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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

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— How do you make your pictures? — I don’t know, it’s not important.

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To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come bac...more

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To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image b...more

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I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us,...more

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Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant. We photographers deal in things tha...more

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For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decide...more

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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image be...more

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It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.