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What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.
I wanted to meet the people, to get involved in the city, to make Tokyo mine.
Above all, remember that the computer simply isn't as intelligent as you are.
Do you know what it takes to do [a global art project]? People, energy, glue.
I don't show every picture that I have, I think discretion is also important.
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.
The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.
I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.
I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.
In creativity, brightest minds have no place You have to think from the heart
Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.
A lot of my close friends have committed suicide or died of heroin overdoses.
If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different?
What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.
Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
Everybody values their train, but they want to zero-out other people's trains.
HONY is one of the only things keeping people from getting lost in the matrix.
I think it's important to try to get on a kid's level when taking their photo.
Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.
I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer.
I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
I only use three primaries, so the nice thing is I can't have favorite colors.
My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.
The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.
I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.
You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.
The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.
I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.
I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.
My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.
The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera
I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.
Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.
A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back.
Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
It's in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works.
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.
I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.
I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.
Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.
It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.
We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.