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Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.

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.

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.

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.

Main thing is just to remember that hard work got me here and only hard work will keep me here.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone wanted to know who this person was, they could take one of these pictures and it would tell who the person was.

My mantra is, 'This or something better.'

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.

No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of taking. At such times, I rely on intuitive, perceptual responses to guide me, using reason only after the final print is made to accept or reject the results of my work.

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to see, to be aware of what there is and how it is. The photographer not only gets information, he gives information about life.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

Now everyone's main objective of taking photographs is to have a photograph for Twitter or Facebook. I find that troubling. If you have an opportunity to meet the Dalai Lama, don't work out your camera or iPhone issues. Sit and a listen to what the man is saying, because nine times out of 10, you're not going to look at that photo. You're not going to look at the video. As a photographer, I don't carry a camera. I have my iPhone, but I don't carry a camera. I want to live.

No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

Of course it's all luck.

Only photograph what you love.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

Only capitalists get photographers.

People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Photographer's advice: Stand in the right place.