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With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.
Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
If you are trying to sell someone your idea and you can't even define it to yourself, then that is a problem.
Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer
Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.
No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.
Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.
I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.
Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.
I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.
Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.
I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring.
Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.
The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments.
People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.
People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail upon it.
In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.
We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.
... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.
One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.
Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.
A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.
Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming.
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
So many things begin to change when you come at the world from that perspective of more than one right answer.
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.
The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.
It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.