I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.
Ed Ruscha, Alexandra Schwartz (2004). “Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages”, p.53, MIT Press
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