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"One thing that Evans is famous for saying is what matters in photography isn’t the camera, it’s your eye. It’s seeing what’s beautiful. And he himself really didn’t have all that much interest in photography at the end of his life. He was collecting things. He just liked collecting junk. And I write about this. You went into his house and saw he’d have to push the junk aside on his bed to lie down and go to sleep at night. He said it was a kind of sickness with him. He much preferred the handmade stuff. But he believed that even machine-made clutter, if you kept it around for a long time, became beautiful, too. And it may simply have been the day I happened to be with him on the beach. He would pick up flotsam and jetsam from the beach. And one of the things that we brought home was a fireman’s glove, or some kind of very specialized plastic glove, that would be used for handling dangerous or hot material. It had washed up on the shore. And it was a hideous orange. He was always in favor of waiting 30 years with photographs. He said after 30 years, you will know what you have. And maybe his feeling was, if you held that for 30 years, you’d have something that was beautiful, too."- William Stott