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Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.
I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
I would question any fee. Let them know you're comparison shopping among several lenders.
There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.
Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.
It is still important that every project I do I do something real, that feels true to me.
Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.
Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.
When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice.
When you look at my photos, just look into the eyes of my subjects. The eyes say so much.
The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.
The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.
The world is littered with the bodies of people that tried to stick it to ole J.R. Ewing!
Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.
A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.
I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.
When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.
You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.
I feel that everything has to come from the heart, and it cannot come from the intellect.
I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks.
You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.
For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera.
If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.
I think my interest gets sparked when I recognize a memory. That is when I take a picture.
If I could wave a magic wand, I would be a size 6 and still be able to eat cake every day.
You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.
When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.
I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal.
Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion.
Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.
Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'
Today, Japan is one of the few countries in the world where one hears laughter everywhere.
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.
It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.
What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.
If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?
If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.
A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.
I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."
You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.
If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.