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Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.
I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.
My biggest problem is I'm so uninteresting that all these people forget I'm around.
If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.
If my photos have any value, it's because they show a Mexico that no longer exists.
Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.
You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.
Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.
One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.
I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.
It's not that I'm confident, but I feel it's okay for me to continue taking photos.
It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.
For me to see the film [Dream of Life] on a big screen - it's pretty extraordinary.
Unless a subject interests me, I'll pass it over and save my film for better things.
I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.
I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.'
The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic.
They all wanted to model for me because they knew I wouldn’t take advantage of them.
Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.
Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit.
I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.
The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.
It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.
I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.
All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.
Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.
If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.
You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.
Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.
Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
Extreme things are like miracles. Nothing is as boring as a person who is just okay.
It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.
It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something.
There are two parts to the process: taking the picture and finding ways of using it.
One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.
I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.
[John] Cassavetes, "Killing of a Chinese Booker", "Opening Night" are my favourites.
The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.
I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas.
Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.
You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.