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From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.
A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.
I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.
It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.
My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.
Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.
One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.
Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet.
I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'
The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.
My work is really simple, actually. I'm just playing with forms of changing.
The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.
A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.
When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.
I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.
Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.
Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.
I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste
It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
I try to never be satisfied; this way I will always be challenging my spirit.
You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.