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

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

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 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.

I use my music to tune myself.

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

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 cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

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.

I've only done one shoot where it's modeling clothes, not like me in my environment. And the stylist, literally, I had her stand behind the photographer and do poses.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.

I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

I’ve noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas for a lot of photographers who have only ever worked in digital, the relationship between the photographer and the person who they’re taking a picture of sort of doesn’t exist anymore. They’re looking at a computer screen as opposed to the person.

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.

I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part... I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.

I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.

I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used.

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and as soon as I got properly confident, I developed my own style. After that I never looked back.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don't know where you get the impetus and response to what's before your eyes.

I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer.

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.

Let us not be afraid to allow for post-visualization. By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer to revisualize the final image at any point in the entire photographic process.

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

Light makes photography. Embrace light.

Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.

Looking and seeing are two different things.

Look, Matisse I ain't. You know how they have on the invitations, a reception for the artist will be held at... And I say, Look, you gotta change this. I'm not an artist. I'm a photographer, a skilled craftsman.

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.