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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.
I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.
What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.
[My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving.
Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both.
Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.
I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.
There is no one way of photographing anything. I don't believe there is even one best way of photographing any given subject.
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.
I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry.
When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.
In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on earth.
In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.
Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.
A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.
I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.
I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.
In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.
I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.
In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size".
At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening.
I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.
I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.
I had a book come out several years ago, when there were no blogs. This is a mark to me about how the environment has changed.
I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.
At the beginning I didn't even really think about making a movie [Dream of Life]. I was just thinking of documenting somebody.
Sometimes my fashion pictures can look a little bit like documentary style pictures. So having a camera in my hand was normal.
What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available.
It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.
I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print.
People reacted to how I looked, and that was certainly a power to have as a young girl, but not one that you really understand.
People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.
You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to put it into words.