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Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?'

Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.

Don't overthink things in front of you. I fit moves you, shoot it. If it's fun, shoot it. If you've never seen it before, shoot it.

Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

Do we know what we look like? Not really.

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

Even in the nineties, when it was mad and there were photographers all around the house, it never occurred to me to send someone else out to get cigarettes. It took me five minutes - went for a walk, gave a wave, went back inside.

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.

Essentially what you're doing is collaborating with the photographer to create an image that reflects the fashion you're trying to capture and also hold a mirror up to the zeitgeist at the moment.

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force.

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.

Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

Everything is one and I am one with it.

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's not over. I work on it more.

Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

Forget what it was. Look at what it is.

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them; I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like more, to be more open and enjoy more things, which has given me more opportunities.

For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.

For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker.

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.

Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.

Gesture is not always action.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he 'uncovers' it.

I always said 'yes' to everything.

Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for sure in my work, but I need a destination.