Anybody can have a life. Careers are hard to come by.
Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.
I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.
What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.
Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don't get it. Once they start to mingle with the collectors and learn that they are people who have achieved something who then expand into art, they change their minds.
It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it.
Going on and getting good bilateral agreement is a better way [than Trans-Pacific Partnership agreements], and I`m fine with that strategy. I think that strategy can work as well.
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.