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Color Tends To Corrupt Photography And Absolute Color Corrupts It Absolutely. Consider The Way Color Film Usually Renders Blue Sky, Green Foliage, Lipstick Red, And The Kiddies' Playsuit. These Are Four Simple Words Which Must Be Whispered: Color Photography Is Vulgar.

Detachment, Lack Of Sentimentality, Originality, A Lot Of Things That Sound Rather Empty. I Know What They Mean. Let's Say, "visual Impact" May Not Mean Much To Anybody. I Could Point It Out Though. I Mean It's A Quality That Something Has Or Does Not Have. Coherence. Well, Some Things Are Weak, Some Things Are Strong.

I'm Sometimes Called A 'documentary Photographer' But... A Man Operating Under That Definition Could Take A Sly Pleasure In The Disguise. Very Often I'm Doing One Thing When I'm Thought To Be Doing Another.

I Say Half Jokingly That Photography Is The Most Difficult Of The Arts. It Does Require A Certain Arrogance To See And To Choose. I Feel Myself Walking On A Tightrope Instead Of On The Ground.

I Used To Try To Figure Out Precisely What I Was Seeing All The Time, Until I Discovered That I Didn't Need To. If The Thing Is True, Why There It Is.