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My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.
If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless.
Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.
No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.
My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
She let me in during her tour, in London. Her band members - especially Lenny Kaye - were shocked at the fact that I was filming Patti [Smith].
Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.
I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.
Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.
Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully.
The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.
The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.
Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.
I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way.
I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.
The only way you're going to save things in life is through love, and that's what we're trying to do .... make people fall in love with Florida.
By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.
Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.
I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint.
I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.
I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in this incredible countryside when I needed it.
The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.
I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.
I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won't be my fault if he ever stops loving me.
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life.
At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.
The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.
The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.
I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.
The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.
When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?
I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.
It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.
Black and white means photography to me. It's much easier to take a good color photograph, but you can get more drama into a black and white one.
It's really a great asset to be willing to fail and blow it, so to speak, and to be okay with just making stuff, sharing it and getting feedback.
At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.
My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.