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I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them. Ruth Bernhard

Time Else Spent More Printer Printing Prints Were Very Than Anything Anything Else Them Used Film Appreciated Careful

Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order. Ruth Bernhard

Everything Metaphor Order Universal

I feel that is more important than my work, the influence I have on my students. Ruth Bernhard

Work Important More Students Feel Than Influence

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.' Ryan McGinley

Work Great People Early Work Back Say One Thing Stuck Look Doing His Gets Artist Want Really Who Thing Early

I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it. Ryan McGinley

Me Travel Band Nice Think Way Would Would-Be Find More Could Like Documentary Venture Doing Person Maybe Want Interesting Them Transition Really Used Fascinated Nice Way Film

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image. Ryan McGinley

You Yourself Photographer Divorce Weird Because Being Really Image

I have absolutely no interest in creating depressing images. Ryan McGinley

No Interest Absolutely Interest Depressing Creating Images

Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic. Ryan McGinley

All I do is make photos. It's my life. Ryan McGinley

Life My Life Photos Make

All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It's easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything. Ryan McGinley

Work Me People Big Everything Those All My Work Easy Brothers Brothers And Sisters Recreate Had Part Adventures Retreat Because Around Lot Sisters Big Part Them Really Many Based Watch

I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable. Ryan McGinley

Work Me People Walk Photographer About More Part Feel Most Comfortable Makes Subject Want Really Right Shyness

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand. Sally Mann

Nature Photography Changed Everybody Advent Camera Hand Whole

At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients. Sally Mann

I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it. Sally Mann

Me Remember Master About Pound Had Written Anything Ask Thesis

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity. Sally Mann

Guess Willingness Audacity Certain

I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead. Sally Mann

Work Time Home Stay Never Leave Just Mean

When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter. Sally Mann

Life You Chapter See Look Coming Get Artist Your Last

I never read about photography. Sally Mann

Photography About Never Read

The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this. Sally Mann

Me Will Reading Everyone Evocative Photograph Visual Would Scene Fact Take Like Look Particularly Dodging Verbal Does Always Passage Been Linked Maybe In Fact Burning Sensibilities While Notes Even Two Imagine

I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night. Sally Mann

Finished Sleeping Books Distraction Some Miracle More Fact Through Weird Devoured Am Due Person Loved Far Who Night

To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. Sally Mann

Time People Care Able About Take Pictures Look Places

Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography. Sally Mann

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