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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

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'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error.

I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel.

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 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 question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

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.

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 every photographer there is something of a stroller.

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

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?

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

In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.

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.

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 photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

In the arts there are many right answers.

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

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.

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

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 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 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 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.

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

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

It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer

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

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

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

I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.

It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

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

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

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