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The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs.
The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
There's a kind of telepathy that goes on with the photographer and model.
I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.
Perhaps the street photographer has been replaced by the security camera.
I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.
The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.
People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.
Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.
Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.
It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.
I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.
A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer.
It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.
No surfer wants to be the photographer, especially when the waves are good.
If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.
It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.
I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.
Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.
I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer.
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.
You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.
I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.
The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.
The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.
Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.
Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.
The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.