Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

What I do is put mirrors in the right place to reflect an image.

Don't shoot til the subject hits you in the pit of your stomach.

They say my prints are bad, darling they should see my negatives

I don't care about traditional photography. I want more control.

I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.

I'm always in awe of accomplished people but never "starstruck".

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

What I really believe is that there are no coincidences anymore.

I didn't have to be friends with people who were into pop music.

Increasingly, it's people not interested in National Geographic.

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.

I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

Everything isn't black and white, but for me it might as well be.

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement.

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

I think a great piece of outerwear can really make you stand out.

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one.

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is always about time.

I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

I never went to film school, so I just sort of learned on my own.

I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.

You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

I've wanted to interview Hillary Clinton since I was 15 years old.

You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.

I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.

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