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The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.
Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.
The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.
Main thing is just to remember that hard work got me here and only hard work will keep me here.
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.
Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera
Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.
There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.
There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.
Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Don't look for "depth" but instead search for subject aspects which prove the presence of depth.
Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.
You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.
I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.
You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution.
Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.
Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.
It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button
I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.