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On Photography Quotes: "You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere."

You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.



On Photography Quotes: "A picture should be looked at - not talked about."

A picture should be looked at - not talked about.




On Photography Quotes: "There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning."

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.



On Photography Quotes: "One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction."

One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.




On Photography Quotes: "The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art."

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.



On Photography Quotes: "You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business."

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.



On Photography Quotes: "I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing."

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




On Photography Quotes: "Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you."

Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.



On Photography Quotes: "I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer."

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.



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

Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.



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

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



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

There is no special way a photograph should look.



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

Light is one of the most important factors in photography.



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: "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: "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: "We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer."

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.



On Photography Quotes: "It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer."

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.



On Photography Quotes: "A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second."

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.



On Photography Quotes: "The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography."

The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography.



On Photography Quotes: "I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.



On Photography Quotes: "The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man."

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.



On Photography Quotes: "Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography."

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.



On Photography Quotes: "It can happen anytime, anywhere. I mean, you don't have to be in front of stuff that's going to make a good photograph. It's possible anywhere."

It can happen anytime, anywhere. I mean, you don't have to be in front of stuff that's going to make a good photograph. It's possible anywhere.



On Photography Quotes: "I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust."

I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.