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“The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.”
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“The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.”
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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 becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
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“In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.”
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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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“The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”
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“Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.”
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“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
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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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“During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.”
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“He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.”
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