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The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.
Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that.
Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below.
In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.
The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.
My belief is that you should take stills of what doesn't seem to move, and take movies or videos of [what] does.
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.
Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.
If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.
There are women who are just extraordinary, who are smart and brilliant, sensual women in their 70s and even 80s!
Understanding money is part of being independent. You can't be self-sufficient if you're relying on someone else.
Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
I'm not a businesswoman... I never looked after my negatives and you need that to prove you took the photographs.
I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.
The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.
We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.
I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.
I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.
I want my gay life to not wind up on the streets-on Second Avenue. But at the same time, I don't care if it does.
Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!
I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.
When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.
You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.
The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.
I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.
It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
I never look for a photograph. The photograph finds me and says, I'm here! and I say, Yes, I see you. I hear you.
Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.
I always dreamed of working in Paris, of going to the Coupole and slapping Picasso or Giacometti on the shoulder.
The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
I read a picture not for what's really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.
The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.
I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.
I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.
Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.
To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.
Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.