~ Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well. ~
~ As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. ~
~ Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. ~
~ Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. ~
~ Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways ~
~ Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. ~
~ Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be ~
~ When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph ~
~ Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. ~
~ Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. ~
~ I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice ~
~ One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind ~