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

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I hate red carpet photographs!

I hate being the subject of photographs.

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

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

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

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 think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

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 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 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.

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.