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We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.
Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.
The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends.
Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.
Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.
I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment
There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work.
Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.
I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.
I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.
Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.
Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.
I always dreamt of becoming an artist in Paris. Thanks to the Army, it happened.
I don't believe in compromise, I believe there is a goal we are trying to reach.
Freedom is... not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day.
Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.
It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.
I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.
I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.
You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.
A photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination.
The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself.
Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.
You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.
I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.
Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence.
Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.
Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?
I've never been impressed by somebody who came in with a crocodile bag, you know?
I don't feel like a fashion person. I don't even have a little earring somewhere.
The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.
The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
Growing up, my room was covered in posters. I was like, "I want to make posters."
I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.
But I never want to not create something because I'm afraid of what it might say.
I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.
To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.
I love people, and photographing people is something I hope I never get tired of.
I have autoimmune disease, thyroid problems, and I've been diagnosed pre-diabetic.
The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.
Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.