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Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.
We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?
I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.
I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.
Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.
I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.
It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.
The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.
The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
Emailing a meaningful photograph to someone who is not expecting it can change a relationship forever.
I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.
Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.
Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.
I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.
It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be.
Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
If it is not an interesting picture when in focus, it is not going to be a better picture out of focus.
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.
Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot.
Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation
I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.
Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.
One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.
The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?
To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.
It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.