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I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.
Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe.
When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.
When people talk to me about picture hunters, I very quietly laugh. I'm not a hunter of pictures, I'm a fisher of pictures.
What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.
Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments.
Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. (Summary of his photographic career)
The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.
Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.
It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.
Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.
I share personal things about myself in the context of my interviews and in 'It's Messy' - but that's 20 percent of my life.
You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.
Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.
There certainly are people who are a pain to work with. I'd be crazy to name them. You can't be indiscreet in this business.
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.
I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.
Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
I used to think consciousness itself was a virtue, so I tried to keep it all in my head at the same time: past, future, etc.
I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.
After a decade I became fed up with the strobe because I had done almost everything once and I didn't want to repeat myself.
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.
I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.
I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.
I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.
The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)
Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem.
The reference-points pictures should be shot and taken off one's system. But don't follow that always, create you own points
First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.
With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.
There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, "Waste not, want not."
I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.
There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.
I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.
When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.
A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.
In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.
Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.
[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.
As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a light, make a beauty.
Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world.