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

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

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

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

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

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 photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this power of reality that no sculptor or painter could recreate, not even a Michelangelo or a Da Vinci.

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.

I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible.

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't considered before.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every human being that it is impossible to present them all in one photograph.

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.

It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here to there.

It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

I wasn't familiar with Patti [Smith ]much at all. When I was asked to photograph her, my wife said, "Oh my God, Patti Smith!" So I looked at some Robert Mapplethorpe books and I recognized those pictures.

I was thinking of the word Surrealistic . . . I don't think it should be used exclusively with my photographs. The meaning is close but I think my tendencies are more toward the whimsical or absurd. Surrealism is more connected with morbidity. From that I am very far away.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again.

Life is a photograph too, so thank you,for not removing yourself from the picture just yet.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.