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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
I feel that when I shoot anything, and I have something beautiful, I just move on.
Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs
Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.
If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.
I have had a lifelong fascination with horror movies, scary movies, how they work.
I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books.
All of my work comes out of a deep concern for human expansion into the landscape.
I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.
No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.
Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.
When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.
Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.
The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.
The single most impactful thing you can do today is adopt a more plant-based diet.
A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.
A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.
I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.
Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?
I have been meditating for 40 years. It makes it a bit easier to know who you are.
One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.
I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do.
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed
The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.
There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.
The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.
We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats.
Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime.
Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.
It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.
I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
My world is much bigger than music, and that's why I always fight the 'rock' label.
When Stuart passed away, I was so young and so selfish about living and having fun.
I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.
Shooting film is not for everybody, but if you're crazy enough it might be for you.
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.
By celebrating what's right with the world, we find the energy to fix what's wrong.
The world is an astounding place, and we can see it every day, if we're open to it.
This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.