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In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary. Patient accumulation of facts and then speculation about their meaning is the nature of authorship in both mediums.

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.

I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.

In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.

In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the spectator.

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

In the arts there are many right answers.

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

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.

I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do not do editorial and I never do advertising. No, my freedom is something I do not give away easily.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.

It 2001 when we started. But prior to that, I had made this website called sundancepics.com, where me and this other photographer, Randall Michelson, could sell our images from Sundance online and it was successful. Steve Granitz, who's my main partner at WireImage, we were already working together, and I was like, "Look dude, this is it. We can do this.

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.

I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have always felt strongly that this was the photographer's true vocation.

It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

It's always around. You just don't see it.

I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.

It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.

It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this.

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be.

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries.

It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.

I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However, I wanted to incorporate into the project as a whole the jostling of time-frames I would feel as I set up my tripod on various rocky promontories.

It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience.

I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take a break, never eat. I'm focused on getting that moment of revelation, of insight, of poignancy, of meaning.