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I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.
I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye.
I love great coats, and I pay a lot of attention to them and own a lot of them.
The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.
I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love.
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available.
Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.
Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.
Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here.
Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.
If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence.
I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.
A vegetarian driving a Hummer emits less carbon than a meat eater on a bicycle.
I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.
It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.
It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.
I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.
A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram.
This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!
I think that Damien Hirst putting a shark in a bath of formaldehyde is nothing.
My complaint is that Americans drive me crazy, and the politics drive me crazy.
To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.
The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!
I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.
There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.
Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.
Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.
Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.
We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.
In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.
If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.