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My pictures are complex and so am I.


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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.



Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.



Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.



The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.



Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.



I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?



I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.



If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.



What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?



My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.





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School has nothing to do with a persons gifting or skills.

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Spiritual regeneration is a change on the inside of a person or nation as a a result of coming to Jesus, and a change of value system in his life

Spiritual regeneration is a change on the inside of a person or nation as a a result of coming to Jesus, and a change of value system in his life



violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.



You loved me before seeing me

You loved me before seeing me



I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.



I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.



Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.

Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.



It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.



The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.




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