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Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.
Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.
This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.
Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.
We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?
Never pose your subjects. Let them move about naturally... All great photographs today are snapshots.
A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.
As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another.
You can only really invent something if you connect yourself to the real world - whatever that means.
Taking pictures is like panning for gold. You do it again and again, and sometimes you find a nugget.
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.
Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.
I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.
Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.
If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.
When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.
I was wanting something new, and for me the Beatles were... outstanding. I was breathless, speechless.
I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it.
A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.
I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.
I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.
Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.
It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.
Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.
I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.
The action we take in the next few years will impact the Earth hundreds of millions of years from now.
It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.
The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.