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I never courted that but it's nice when it's people you respect and they respect your work. It's thrilling.
The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.
I want a better world, but also a realistic world. We can only create a better world by becoming realistic.
I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.
I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.
This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.
Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.
I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.
I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.
My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble.
I think the most important thing any artist can do is to constantly push themselves and improve their craft.
It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.
It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.
The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.
Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo.
Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.
If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.
I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.
Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.
Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.
It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!
It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.
I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.
What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.
I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".
I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. … Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden.
Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.
The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9/11.
I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.
In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on
Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.
I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.
In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.
Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.
I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.
Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
I can’t describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them.
I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.
No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.
I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.