~ Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it may be. ~
~ To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer. ~
~ A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. ~
~ The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE. ~
~ We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them. ~
~ We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them. ~
~ Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools. ~
~ The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs. ~
~ Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ~
~ They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. ~
~ The photographic image ... is a message without a code. ~
~ On Photography "Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption ~