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The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.
It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.
I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people
I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.
I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.
Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.
To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos.
I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.
It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
The most powerful stories are the ones that unite us, not divide us.
Know - how is worthless unless guided by know - why and know - when.
Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car
The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.
Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.
Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.
I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.
I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.
My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places.
I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.
If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.
[When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be.
Traveling would be quite perfect if only one could go home at night.
Photography is not difficult - as long as you have something to say.
Work harder, get closer and be passionate about what you photograph.
I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.
I don't know if Yves St Laurent likes my work but Pierre Bergé does.
If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.
To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world.
What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?
I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.
I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.
I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.
Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.
I do what feels natural, but I can't say I haven't thought about it.
Sexuality is a very private thing, 'Provocateur' will make it public
A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it.
I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.
To me, it’s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.
Analog is more beautiful than digital, really, but we go for comfort.
The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.