Hot Quotes - Page 10

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.

I am at war with the obvious.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.

I'm always ready to step up and take that shot.

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.

Place a lump of fresh butter in a pan or egg dish and let it melt - that is, just enough for it to spread, and never, of course, to crackle or sit; open a very fresh egg onto a small plate or saucer and slide it carefully into the pan; cook it on heat so low that the white barely turns creamy, and the yolk becomes hot but remains liquid; in a separate saucepan, melt another lump of fresh butter; remove the egg onto a lightly heated serving plate; salt it and pepper it, then very gently pour this fresh, warm butter over it

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

The best camera, is the one that you have with you!

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives

For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.

There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.