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Cameras intrigued me.
What I know bores me.
Nobody exists in a vacuum.
I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.
All things are photographable.
A photograph can look any way.
I was a hired gun, more or less.
I have to photograph where I am.
I pretty much know what I'm doing.
When I’m photographing I see life.
I have no expectations. None at all.
People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
I don't go around looking at my pictures.
I generally deal with something happening.
I don't have anything to say in any picture.
Everybody's entitled to their own experience.
There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
At times I'd much rather talk about other work.
There is no special way a photograph should look.
My only interest in photographing is photography.
Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.
Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
At times people in the press were also useful to me.
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."
I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.
I don't know if I'm really the fastest. It doesn't matter.
I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.
It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.
You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.
I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.
Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.
A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.
The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.
Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.