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I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love - all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

Working on photography is working on oneself.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases in late years, the discoveries of photography, of electric telegraphy, and of the planet Neptune through theoretical calculations, have all their rival claimants. It would seem, that discoveries are usually made when the time is ripe for them - that is to say, when the ideas from which they naturally flow are fermenting in the minds of many men.

For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me in my daily life and all kinds of things I see. Every new project is a new challenge and my goal is to realize them as realistic as possible.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

Photography allows you to be a part of the action and document stories. It is a perfect extension of my body. I can take it pretty much anywhere and tell a story with a photograph.

The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography.

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.