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The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.
The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.
I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.
Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money.
I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?
I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.
The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.
Of all the places I've been, India is the one that's on the top of my list to return to.
I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.
You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.
As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
At the incredible pace most of us live, the arrested image becomes of maximum necessity.
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute
Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.
A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
It is vital for artists to nurture and protect that which will make their vision unique.
We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography.
They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.
When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.
Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.
I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.
I must create the world in order to breathe in the world; I don't exist unless I create.
In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.
I would say my sex drive is weaker than most. However, my lens has a permanent erection.
I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.
My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.
I just remember how excited I was to have a boyfriend and be in love and to document it.
I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.
For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.
It's time to come together. We all have the power to change, so what are we waiting for?
I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.
The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
I miss Bettie Page. I've been missing her since the last time I photographed her in 1954.
The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed.
I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.