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I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.
A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.
I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.
One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.
I always thought that my canine family tended to view me as the funny-looking two-legged dog who runs the can opener.
I don’t believe in originality. You take inspiration from whatever moves you and you find your voice in those things.
Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.
I like to choose the people I take photographs of, but when you make your living off it, you've got to take everybody.
I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.
What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.
[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)
Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.
Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.
There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
Celebrate the best in people. Find the light that shines not on us, but within us, when we trust enough to let it out.
The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.
For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired.
Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.
I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.
If you go to shows today, you have 16 celebrities sitting there, all these people who have nothing to do with fashion.
I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.
My work was my life, and my life was my work, and there was a kind of blur between reality and what was being created.
Now I love the act of creating a new image. When everything comes together, it feels like ecstasy. It's like a climax.
I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.
Sex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a very serious problem.
In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.
If you surround yourself with talented people and you give them the freedom to achieve, then the work will never fail.
I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.
There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.
Let go of the thoughts, let go of the mind, let go of everything. Let go! Drop it! Drop everything. Hold onto nothing.
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.
There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.
Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.
I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.
I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.
Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.
I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.