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By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.
I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.
I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.
Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.
Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph
When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.
A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.
For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.
For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.
There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.
True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.
I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.
That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.
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.
Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.
I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.
I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram.
I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.
I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
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.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.
Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.
Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!
Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.