Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.
I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of almost anything.
The photograph is always more interesting than what the photograph is of.
I think one of the shortcomings of reality, of real experience, is most people's inability to examine something carefully and thoughtfully without moving around or being distracted by something else. What photography does really is it forces you to examine something you normally wouldn't.
One of the magical things about photography is the transformation that takes place when you photograph something. Something that inherently has very little going for it in terms of the interest you take in it, can become infinitely more interesting when rendered as a photograph. It's no longer a building. It's a photograph.
I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key.
Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.
Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.