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You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.
I think that what you’ve got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.
The distance between where you are now and the path you think you should be on is probably smaller than you think it is
Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.
To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.
It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.
A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'
There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.
The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.
The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.
I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.
I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.
A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.
For me, the new pictures are what I'm thinking about every day. The past is the past, no? Every day is a new challenge.
Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly
From 8 to 19, I was skateboarding every single day. That was my life. I worked at a skate shop. I watched skate videos.
I always think that we know so much more than one would have ever known before. But I don't know if that's really true.
I was in so much emotional pain as a young girl that whatever distracted me from how I felt about myself was fine by me.
Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.
Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
The most important thing I gave the Beatles was my friendship. They trusted me: there was no fear in being photographed.
The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.
A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.
I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.
Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.
I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
Firing is always difficult. The right way: one-on-one. The wrong way: snickering in front of other people, or via email.
And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.
Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation.
A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.
Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.
Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.
The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it's easy for me to travel.
The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.
I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.
The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.
Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.
Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this mystery.
You cannot say that one woman is 'more beautiful' than another, though people always do. It's so ridiculous to say that.
Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.