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We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.

We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.