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On Photography Quotes: "The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites."

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.



On Photography Quotes: "I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker."

I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker.




On Photography Quotes: "Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature."

Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature.



On Photography Quotes: "That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood."

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.




On Photography Quotes: "Light is one of the most important factors in photography."

Light is one of the most important factors in photography.



On Photography Quotes: "Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me."

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.



On Photography Quotes: "What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth."

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.




On Photography Quotes: "I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird."

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.



On Photography Quotes: "I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible."

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.



On Photography Quotes: "While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing."

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.



On Photography Quotes: "To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia."

To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.



On Photography Quotes: "It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed."

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.




On Photography Quotes: "Photography to me is an addiction. I get jittery after a couple of days without a camera. Everyone who knows me says I'm happiest when I'm shooting."

Photography to me is an addiction. I get jittery after a couple of days without a camera. Everyone who knows me says I'm happiest when I'm shooting.



On Photography Quotes: "I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us."

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.



On Photography Quotes: "You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there."

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.



On Photography Quotes: "There is no special way a photograph should look."

There is no special way a photograph should look.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously."

Photography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect."

Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.



On Photography Quotes: "But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards"

But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards



On Photography Quotes: "My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things."

My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.



On Photography Quotes: "The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard."

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.



On Photography Quotes: "The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back."

The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.



On Photography Quotes: "... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'."

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.



On Photography Quotes: "I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life."

I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.



On Photography Quotes: "Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content."

Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.



On Photography Quotes: "There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit."

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.



On Photography Quotes: "Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting."

Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.



On Photography Quotes: "The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?"

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?



On Photography Quotes: "This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand."

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.



On Photography Quotes: "The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously."

The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously.



On Photography Quotes: "When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once."

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.



On Photography Quotes: "For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree."

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.



On Photography Quotes: "We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes."

We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes.



On Photography Quotes: "For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art."

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.



On Photography Quotes: "There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs."

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.



On Photography Quotes: "Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks."

Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.



On Photography Quotes: "I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it."

I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious."

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.



On Photography Quotes: "It's all the same. It's the same face. We always look for an idea, for the same face, for the same position. There is no such thing as a European or an African photography. It's all the same thing."

It's all the same. It's the same face. We always look for an idea, for the same face, for the same position. There is no such thing as a European or an African photography. It's all the same thing.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was."

Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.



On Photography Quotes: "Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else."

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.



On Photography Quotes: "Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating."

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.



On Photography Quotes: "A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography."

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.



On Photography Quotes: "I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking the same questions: Who am I? What am I supposed to be? What have I done?"

I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking the same questions: Who am I? What am I supposed to be? What have I done?



On Photography Quotes: "In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time."

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.



On Photography Quotes: "You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes."

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.



On Photography Quotes: "I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer."

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.



On Photography Quotes: "I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!"

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!



On Photography Quotes: "Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema."

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.