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First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design.
If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.
Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.
I still dream of the day when I will take a photograph so beautiful that it can be called love.
I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.
I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.
Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.
One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.
You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.
It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera
Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.
My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.
The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.
I don't ever mean my pictures to be depressing - I don't believe in making depressing pictures.
You can lose who you are so easily when you're being so many things to so many different people.
Don't look for "depth" but instead search for subject aspects which prove the presence of depth.
Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.
Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.
Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.
No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.
Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.
I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
I'm of the belief that you pursue your interests, you pull it all in, and you sort it out later.
A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.
The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.
Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do.
I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.
I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
A lot of people who don't have anything collect dogs; it's kind of a symbol of having something.
The golden rule in the arts, as far as I am concerned, is that all rules are meant to be broken.
Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.
I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.
Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
We had a love-hate relationship. Jackie knew exactly what she could get out of one of my photos.
To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman has been my mission.
The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.