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One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

— Leroy Chiao

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✓Similar Perspectives

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

— William Eggleston

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

— Mark Rothko

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

— Arthur Erickson

Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.

— Galen Rowell

The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.

— Leroy Chiao

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

— Ben Shahn

✗Opposing Perspectives

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

— Lech Walesa

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.

— Ben Shahn

Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'

— Karl Pilkington