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I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries.
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.
No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.
I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.
So many people are exploiting the name Picasso - and, in a way, even the estate is doing it.
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.
Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
The touring makes you take a step back. It makes you realize how your lifestyle has changed.
You've got a lot going for you, you see. By just describing well with it, something happens.
It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)
For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.
I like the idea that my work isn't intended only for the Earth, but for the entire Universe.
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.
The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.
Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.
I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.
My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.
A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.
I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.
I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera.
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.
I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith].
Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.
The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.
Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.
After Stu, I liked John and George. Then I like Pete Best. Paul I found hard to get close to.
I always need to get away from whatever it is I've just finished, to feel a distance from it.
I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.
That is why people have jobs and pay checks... it helps keep you from unanswerable questions.
If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.
I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.
I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.
Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.