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While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.

As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.

Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people can feel that. That's what makes people feel comfortable. It is important to appear confident with clients, but it is more important to not be afraid to act like a fool, have fun, laugh and shake your hips to get people comfortable.

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.

If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.

I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken.

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.

I love Sweden. In Sweden, the women are just so hot. Their vibe is so amazing. You feel like every girl out there was genetically altered to just be hot. I did not see one ugly woman out there, it was just a line of continuously hot girls.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers.

Creativity needs to extend beyond the lens. Find creative ways to showcase your work and get it seen. Straight up tenacity, hard work and determination will always be part of the equation, so get to it.

There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!

Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.