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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

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A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

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Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: April 12th, 1883

Died: June 24th, 1976

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