To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis
It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.
All photographs are self-portraits.
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.
. . . throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art. . . today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.
I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.
The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.
You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.
The first time, I usually skim off the outer layer and end up with photographs that are fairly obvious. The second time, I have to look a little deeper. The images get more interesting. The third time it is even more challenging and on each subsequent occasion, the images should get stronger, but it takes more effort to get them.
People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.
I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.
Saudi Arabia is so conservative. At first there were photographs of women I took that I couldn't publish - of women without their abayas. So I started writing out little anecdotes about things I couldn't photograph and wove it in with a more obscure picture and called it "moments that got away". I realised these worked as well as the photographs by themselves. There are a lot of photographers who feel the story is all in the photographs but I really believe in weaving in complementary words with the pictures.
I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.
He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.