Occupation: Photographer Birth: October 14, 1905 Death: December 18, 2006
Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the i….
Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential..
Photography is art when it's used by an artist..
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry..
If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button.
Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made lik….
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own ….
Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curve….
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality..
There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture..
For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of ….
Remember God likes us best when we are flying by the seats of our pants..
The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, t….
You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it..
Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experience….
It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel at home in ….
If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything..
Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one..
If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning.
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help..
#1 Never Get Used to Anything..