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If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
Photography is not something you retire from.
People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.
I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
I fight to take a good photograph every single time.
A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
I can't stand the word 'celebrity.' It's such a brash word.
A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.
Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.
I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.
I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.'
I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.
There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.
As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.
As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.
I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.
The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.
You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.
What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.
There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.
I feel unbelievably blessed that I have had the opportunity to photograph Malala in her classroom in Birmingham.
Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.