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You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.
While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.
Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.
Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.
The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.
A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.
If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.
The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.
I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.
I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.
I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace.
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.
I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.
I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.
People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.
I don't care about traditional photography. I want more control.
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning
A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.
I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is always about time.
Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one.
Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.
My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.
I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.
It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.
Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.
When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.