Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities. - Dorothea Lange

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America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.

Dorothea Lange

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

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

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You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

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The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.

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Matthew Zapruder

Mahmoud Darwish wrote that "extreme clarity is a mystery. " That sounds right to me. I don't want anyone hunting for anything ancillary to the true mystery. If that means risking being thought of as glib or dull or banal or stupid or whatever, I guess that will just have to be the way it is.

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Jeff Lindsay

I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.

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Bobby Flay

Chipotles to me are a one-of-a-kind pepper because they're smoked jalapenos, so they're fiery and they're smoky. It's good to use chipotles in salsas or soups or condiments - that works really well. To me, they always really pick up anything you put them in.

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