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It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun.
I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.
I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.
Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.
I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.
It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.
I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.
The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.
Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.
When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.
You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'
It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.
That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.
Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.
Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.
Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.
The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography.
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.
Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now.
Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens.
I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.
I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.
I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.
The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.
Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.
Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.
It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart.
Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.
I know that people think of my work from the '70s as American, but I've been going to other places for a long time.
I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.
I love all Goop products, but I'll always have the Revitalizing Day Moisturizer on my desk at work or in my handbag.