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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life.
A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.
For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.
I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.
You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.
I didn't actually begin photographing, or even visit New York, for the first time until I was 26.
There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while.
I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.
Dreamers are those who have achieved in love and life, because it is a dream that got them there.
When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.
Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
I am full of a sense of promise, like I often have: the feeling of always being at the beginning.
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same.
I wish i could change my mind as easily as I change socks But then I don't change socks so easily
The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you.
I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.
Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
Sometimes we are just divided, but we still, for the most part, we have similar hopes and dreams.
You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution.
I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through.
I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.
Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.
I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.
We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record.
I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.
You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.
I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.
Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.
To indicate the ideal proportion and reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.
I think a lot about control nowadays, and I really want to let go and just be more in the moment.
I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.
What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.
My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.