Photographing a cake can be art.

You adapt to who you're photographing.

This photographing is really the business of stealing.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.

My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.

I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it!

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.

I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.

I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.

I didn't actually begin photographing, or even visit New York, for the first time until I was 26.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

Today, it's almost the outlier if people are not photographing what they ate and then sharing that in real time.

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

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 started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive.

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money.

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

I'm trying to grow more as a journalist and understand the story I'm photographing in order to communicate it in a better way.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

You will never go wrong with actually photographing process. It's primitive. Humans love to see the bipedal animal in us finish things. We just like it!

When I'm photographing, I look for the personal style with which something is worn - sometimes even how an umbrella is carried or how a coat is held closed.

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

Photographing friends means that there's a spontaneity to the images. I have a lot of love for my friends and family, and I love taking cool pictures of them.

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

One day, I'll be photographing Kate Moss in Paris, then I'll be on Stephanie Seymour's ranch with her hundred horses wondering what exactly it is I'm doing there.

I started photographing amazing African wildlife for my own pleasure. It was like a much-needed antidote to my life in the city, which I was fast becoming allergic to.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

It's impossible for me to go into a room or look at a location without a part of my brain photographing it - picking the best angle or looking at the way the light hits.

My parents had this extraordinary circle of friends. My father would be photographing somebody every day, someone from the world of the arts, a politician, a musician, a sportsman.

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.

When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or having themselves photographed in ways they wanted to be seen.

Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them homes-away-from-home. But there can be dark corners in familiar places.

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