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I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think if somebody else had been doing this work, and if I could have seen these pictures anywhere at all, then there would have been no need to make them.

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

I am interested in making photographs which comment on the experience of a place as well as describe it. My position has not typically been one of advocacy for or against any political position. But I regard photographs as commentary, and that includes, at times, taking a specific political viewpoint on an issue.

I am what I photograph.

I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.

I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.

I come unprepared to shooting. I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland. I was given very little time to photograph people and I was very scared.

I didn't throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead.

I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.

I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' girl is somebody who doesn't do anything except go to parties and get her photograph taken.

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities.

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.

I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.

I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.

I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.

I fall in love with almost every person I photograph. I want to hear their stories. I want to get close. This is personal for me.

I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.

If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty.

I found that while it was interesting to travel around and take the photographs, I would find that I was more interested in the stories behind the photographs. I was more interested in narrative.

If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence.

If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.

I hate being the subject of photographs.

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture.  I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

I hate red carpet photographs!

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.

I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have.

I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

I have never been skinny. The thing is, I was in an industry where being athletic was not celebrated. I have friends who are supermodels, and I never had that body. I've never been asked to walk in a Versace show. I was doing the covers of the magazines while they were cruising the clothes down the runway, and then they'd bring me the clothes and I'd have to photograph them.

I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature.

I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.

I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between the found and the constructed.

I never look for a photograph. The photograph finds me and says, I'm here! and I say, Yes, I see you. I hear you.

I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like.