Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
The only self-consciousness in the film [Dream of Life] is anyone's natural shyness.
I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.
The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.
All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us.
Whitney Cummings is a very dear friend of mine, and she is a huge advocate for women.
I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.
I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.
My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.
I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.
I can do what I love or I can love what I do. Learn to love the task in front of you.
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.
I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.
All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.
He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?'
But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.
"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."
Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.
Sometimes you feel uncomfortable taking a photograph, but that's all part of the job.
I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.
The cool thing for me about moving to New York was that I got to create a new family.
Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.
You always have to measure your desires and goals against your ego and your humility.
What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.
I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that?
Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.
I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.
The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm’s length.
I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don’t even know until I see it.
I'm really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it.
All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.
My wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity.
You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed