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I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.
Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.
For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.
All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.
I'm very involved in photographing America now, so I don't think of faraway places, as I did when I was young.
When I went to Detroit, I was very naïve, actually, and I think Patti [Smith] picked up on that quite quickly.
It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
If a film is a real knockout like 'Raging Bull,' it does not matter that it might not have happened like that.
As a photographer, there are times when I have to decide if it's appropriate to invade a moment with my camera.
Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.
I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.
I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.
I want to show off how beautiful my subjects are, whether its a cheetah or a live girl or two of them together.
We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.
I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.
I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.
I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration.
My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't see the borders.
I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.
I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak.
Back in the 70s it cost 15-20$ a shot for the film, the processing, and the contact sheet, now it’s twice that.
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.
Most of the other soldiers were older than me and sent money back to their families, so they were more prudent.
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
Basically I'm always looking for things. Any good photographer should always be looking for something, you know.
I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.
When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.
I feel unbelievably blessed that I have had the opportunity to photograph Malala in her classroom in Birmingham.
A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.
If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.
In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.
I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.
Taking good pictures is easy. Making very good pictures is difficult. Making great pictures is almost impossible
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture.
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.
What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.