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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
You are putting on paper, in print, what you sense and feel in your mind.
I don't like to interview people in front of their friends; they clam up.
Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!
I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.
There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
The photograph is always more interesting than what the photograph is of.
I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.
If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.
I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.
Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change.
I have an incredible relationship with dogs. I'm kind of a dog-whisperer.
I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
I was never so attracted to the glamorous world. That never impressed me.
The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs.
To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.
A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.
I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.
Fashion's been really good to me. It financed Patti Smith: Dream of Life.
I just wanted to be Patti's [Smith] messenger and get her word out there.
Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.
The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.
Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.
New York has the biggest, most eclectic collection of people in the world.
All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.
Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.
Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.
Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter.
A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.
In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.
The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.
The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.
The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.
I could easily live in a world populated with disjunctive, bizarre things.
The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive
There's something political about creating a world that you want to exist.