To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
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Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
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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 back again.
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