Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.
Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.
Surprise, unpredictability: these are the main materials of creativity.
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.
The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.
I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.
I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.
Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.
When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.
The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.
Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.
To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.
Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement
Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.
A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.
I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.
It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it.
Social media is a superimposing place where people are usually bragging.
I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.
I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.
For every negative that is a disappointment, there is one that is a joy.
Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.
I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.
Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again.
The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.
Photography is essentially a personal matter - a search for inner truth.
As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it.
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
Remember God likes us best when we are flying by the seats of our pants.
In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.
If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.
All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.
I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.
People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.