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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.
With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself.
I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.
You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.
When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.
Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.
Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.
Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?
I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.
Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?
The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.
There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.
I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.
I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.
When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.
In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it.
I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.
The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.
A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.
I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.
Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge.
Photography is essentially a personal matter - a search for inner truth.
In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.
Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!
Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.
I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.
All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.