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This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.
Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit.
It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.
The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.
There are two parts to the process: taking the picture and finding ways of using it.
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.
I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.
Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.
A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.
Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.
There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.
He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.
What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?'
To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."
Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.
Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.
I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.
Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.
If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.
To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.
Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
It's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography.
I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.
I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.
I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.
The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.
The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.
I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.
Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.
Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.