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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.
The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.
I don't get straight people, but I understand what they look like.
I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer.
It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.
Margaritas are my favorite. And my fiance makes them just perfect.
I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.
And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.
However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.
The most difficult thing for me is to take pictures from far away.
I have no way of portraying the lives of others. I portray my own.
When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.
The most important piece of equipment in your bag is your attitude
Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.
If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people.
My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity.
If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.
I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together.
A professional is an amateur who has been working for a long time.
I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.
I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.
Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.
In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.
Honestly, I do believe in the power of women supporting each other.
Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.
Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories
To see the light we must first acknowledge that we are in the dark.
Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.
The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.
The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.
I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.
[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.
Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.
I do read many of the photography magazines from the UK and abroad.
When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts.