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I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.
Oct 1, 2025
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Beauty can be seen in all things.
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.
Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.
The eye should learn to listen before it looks.
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
You don't make a photograph just with a camera
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
Photography is a love affair with life.
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
Light makes photography. Embrace light.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.