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I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

That's a girl's life for the rest of her days- somewhere between a lollipop and shots.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had never paid any attention to. And as you photograph, one of the benefits is that the world becomes a much richer, juicier, visual place. Sometimes it is almost unbearable — it is too interesting. And it isn’t always just the photos you take that matters. It is looking at the world and seeing things that you never photograph that could be photographs if you had the energy to keep taking pictures every second of your life.

My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

When the weather is really hot, I tend to live in denim cut-offs.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.