Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
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Marc Riboud
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Dorothea Lange
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
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Aleksandar Hemon
Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.
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Ansel Adams
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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George Bernard Shaw
More Quotes By Viggo Mortensen
You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.
Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on....
I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.
You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.
