~ As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work... you can only see what you are ready to see - what mirrors your mind at that particular time ~
~ Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! ~
~ Photography to the amateur is recreation,
to the professional it is work, and hard work too,
no matter how pleasurable it may be. ~
~ At forty-two I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn’t rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted. ~
~ A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos. ~
~ I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. ~
~ To manipulate an image is to control a people ~
~ Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. ~
~ I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too. ~
~ Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second. ~
~ Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created. ~
~ Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. ~