Photographers are always imposing
My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.
We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.
Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?
It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.
Photographer's advice: Stand in the right place.
Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.
I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.
These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them
I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.
A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
A very receptive state of mind. . . not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
Take pictures of what you fear.
The problem suggests the solution.
The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.