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Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd.

Grain is the brush stroke of photography.

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph

Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime.

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in. Whether you're photographing for yourself, for your job, whether you photograph on the weekends or everyday or once in a while, the main point is having fun and to be exercising your curiosity and to be really in love with what you are doing.

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

Photography is like making cheese. It takes a hell of a lot of milk to make a small amount of cheese just like it takes a hell of a lot of photos to get a good one.

Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be a success;don't try to do pictures for others to look at- just please yourself.

A woman who is unfaithful deserves to be shot.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.

I only watch TV when I go to hotels.

Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.

Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.

Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.

You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire

If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul.