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My message for people to not take anything for granted, to respect what they might not understand.
I prepare for a shoot by saturating my brain with images that have different moods or expressions.
I'm not just a fan of the really restored ones, the shiny ones. But I like the working man's cars.
There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed.
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.
The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
The last time I changed my camera was 50 years ago. All I need is a good face and the right light.
If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.
Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.
Yeah, it's just a lame term. I wish it was "movie star." That's a much better term than celebrity.
For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here.
There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.
My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.
In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.
I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.
I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.
All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.
If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button
Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.
A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.
I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.
My kids see feminism in action every day, and leading by imperfect example is how I'm raising them.
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.
Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.
The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful.
I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.
When I use the camera, I often feel likeI know part of the people or places I come in contact with.
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.
I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.
We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.
I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.
When I look at green trees on a sunny day, I don't know how to make an interesting picture of that.
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.
I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
I think I always keep coming back to certain pieces, the idea of essential, elegant, easy wardrobe.
There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.
Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement.
I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal.
When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
The cumulative effect of each person making a change in his or her own life will make a difference.
It's not that I don't care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning.
I want to go out as unprepared as possible so I can get filled up with what the world has to offer.