Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is something we still don't understand.
I was thinking of the word Surrealistic. . . I don't think it should be used exclusively with my photographs. The meaning is close but I think my tendencies are more toward the whimsical or absurd. Surrealism is more connected with morbidity. From that I am very far away.
I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.
Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.
Photographs. . . are the most curious indicators of reality.
I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.
[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images.
Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.
Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.
Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.
To collect photographs is to collect the world.
What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.
Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U. S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.
I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.
Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.