No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
You don't make a photograph just with a camera
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.
The important thing is not the camera but the eye.
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.
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