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My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
Take pictures of what you fear.
The camera is a kind of license.
I think all families are creepy in a way.
Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises
My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.
The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
This photographing is really the business of stealing.
[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect
If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories
I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.
The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.
Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.
One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
That is why people have jobs and pay checks... it helps keep you from unanswerable questions.
Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.
I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
I am full of a sense of promise, like I often have: the feeling of always being at the beginning.
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.
The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.
I used to think consciousness itself was a virtue, so I tried to keep it all in my head at the same time: past, future, etc.
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.
I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me feel shaky.
I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.
I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.
I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.
