I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.
What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera. . . they are made with the eye, heart and head.
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population - weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example. . .
It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.
So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
Sometimes I think I should just buy a blow-up party doll. Same level of intelligence, plastic, and full of air. The problem is, I'd probably fall in love.