The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things.
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.
Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me
People aren't really looking at the result when taking a picture on an iPhone. And they don't print it. So to me, it's almost not a photograph. It's like looking in the mirror. It's a tool I don't relate to at all.
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.
You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.
The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9. 49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.
But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.
If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.
I come unprepared to shooting. I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland. I was given very little time to photograph people and I was very scared.
I fall in love with almost every person I photograph. I want to hear their stories. I want to get close. This is personal for me.
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you.
I try to photograph thoughts.
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
Exile is a series of photographs without texts.
One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.
Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.
I will just say, appropriation is an intellectual idea until it happens to you. It's a philosophy, and it's got its own intellectual framework. Then there's what happens when it's your photograph. Then it's personal, and that's all I'll say.
Photograph each day so we can live forever