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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in doing so we tell their story.

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on.

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

You know, I'm very photogenic.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.