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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

No flip flops for black dudes. I don’t care where you at. Wear some hot ass Jordans on the beach.

Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth.

They want you to believe the Sun is hot. I urge you to ask yourself 'Have they ever touched it? Think about it.

Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.

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.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.

When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.