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Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.

We are extremely precise about the girls we like; they're not necessarily the "It" girls of the season. Sometimes this "It" girl business gets a bit hysterical. It's all about which girl did which shoot with which photographer.

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a moment. In the book, I talk about how I started shooting, how I became a photographer.

We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We go forward, despite the uncertainty. Because this is an act of love and passion, which defies reason and prudence.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.

What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.

When I first asked to take pictures of women at their homes, I was using my formal camera and I struggled to get the shots because I was still very much in the role of the photographer. Then the next time I had this little digital camera and their response to me would be completely different - I was a friend and I got new kinds of pictures. I was always treading a line between photographer and friend.

When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things. One of the things he said was, "Josef, a photographer works on the subject, but the subject works on the photographer.

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.

When I revealed the campaign, some lady in the front row, a photographer, asked "is that airbrushed?" So I just lifted my shirt up and my stomach was the exact same thing as in the ads. It was actually kinda nice that she said that, because I'm sure plenty of people probably thought that. That's one of the reasons I did it - especially when you work so hard to get your body to look like that - it's frustrating.

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

Yes, there are billions more photographers, and billions more photographs every day, but who's building up a point of view? Who's photographing with intention, and whose body of work will sustain itself and survive?

When I make a picture, I make love.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.

Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.

You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.

When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.

You cannot accurately remember color.

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

You don't study photography, you just do it.

You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.