![My photography is very European. In America, I always get the sense that people are comforted by understanding what they're looking at. Photography's quite clear here [in the U.S.], it's very well-explained. My photography's perhaps not as well-explained.](/assets/img/quote-photos/my-photography-is-very-european-in-america-i-always-get-the-sense-that-people-a.jpg)
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Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own. Richard Avedon
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I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature. Ryan McGinley
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If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded. Umberto Eco
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It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one. Robert Capa
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I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
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People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical. Keith Haring
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I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.' Joe Henderson
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Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name. Marge Schott
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Jackson's trip stands at the cusp of major change in the United States for transportation, ... To a great extent, he was still traveling through a 19th-century America that hadn't changed much since the 1860s or so. Dayton Duncan
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Katrina showed America that race and class matters, Charles Barron
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I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with. Andrew Shue
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I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it. Stephen Graham
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He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.
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I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving. Gale Norton
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry. Sam Rockwell