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Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.
Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
I wonder how it is that I’m fooling so many people, I’m doing one of the most stupid things in the world…and people seem to be falling for it.
You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.
I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.
I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.
Making that final commitment is really hard. Because once you decide to move forward, it becomes a whole process which is really hard to stop.
During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use and in what context it appears.
There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.
Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.
I love the life of objects. When the children go to bed, the objects come to life. I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects.
Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.
Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.
I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.
Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?
There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.
Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.
Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.
I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money.
Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important
I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them.
I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
It's only when people get involved, when there's money involved, that you have a lot opinions around you. I try not to listen to them too much.
I don't want to continue to do what I did when I was 20. I would like to continue to develop myself and not continue to hang around with bands.
There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.
Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.
I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.
I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.
And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.
I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it.
Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.
I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.
You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.
Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.
I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.
Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.
It can happen anytime, anywhere. I mean, you don't have to be in front of stuff that's going to make a good photograph. It's possible anywhere.
And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans do.
There is nothing more meaningful than being true to yourself and finding your own voice. Follow your heart and don't let anyone discourage you.
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' In D.C., people thank you for coming here and bringing art here.
I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.
The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.