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I have noticed that music, like solid matter, is essentially crystalline in structure.
Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it's the right people getting shot.
To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis
To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.
The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.
If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.
I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.
My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.
I walked exclusively on the sidewalks. I was a city girl. I've never been countrified.
I think of the nudes as seed pods, like flowers or grasses. They are universal bodies.
I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.
I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.
It's not who you know, it's who you blow. I don't have a hole in my jeans for nothing.
There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.
I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.
Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up.
Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.
You are the most important thing in your life. Put yourself at the center of your life.
I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.
There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.
Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.
As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.
I always want to be prepared, 'cause you never know who's going to come to your studio.
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.
Good shoes are important. I wear English brogues in a wide fitting. They last me years.
I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality.
I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures.
Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.
Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands
I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.
None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.
You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.
In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.
The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
Photographers undervalue the use of a wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.
To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.
As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.
The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.
In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.