Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.
The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of the "idea" he has dug for himself.
I am not used to doing naked shoots but when you trust the photographer and the crew, you know it won't be vulgar.
You cannot accurately remember color.
What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.
There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.
You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium - so that to photograph becomes a magical act, and slowly other more suggestive images begin to appear behind the visible image, for which the photographer cannot be held responsible.
Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new
What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms. . . He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.
Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.
It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you.
All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing.
I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.
Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expression in a matter of moments. It takes moments for a photographer to perfect his technique. And then it takes years for him to make it into something that is truly creative and worthwhile.
Let us not be afraid to allow for post-visualization. By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer to revisualize the final image at any point in the entire photographic process.
Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.
Thoughtfulness begins with seeing. My job as a photographer is to make that seeing easier. What we appreciate, what fascinates us, we will strive to preserve.