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Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.

For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all time when your subject is revealed to the fullest - that moment of perfection which comes once and is not repeated.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

God gave me photography so that I could pray with my eyes.

I've sat on the hot seat and I felt its hotness

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.

A photograph has edges the world does not.

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.

In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.

I have gradually confused photography with life.

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.

If you love something, the work will be just fine.

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

An image is better than one thousand words