Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.
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.
I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.
Then she says, ‘I love you. ’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.
And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what. . . to create those things instead of me breathing over his shoulder and I like it because I don't have to sit in the editing room all day. I get to watch just dailies.
During those times like in my early years as a writer I could actually write a song in ten minutes because all of a sudden a song is writing itself, I'm just putting down words. It just seem each line that you put down flows with the other ones. It's like writing a love letter you don't think about it, it's something from the heart.