I have been a photographer all my life....and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that becomes more and more app…

- Ralph Gibson

One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to the rails so I wouldn't fall over…

- Ralph Gibson

When I was working with Robert Frank, he told me that there was absolutely no relationship between cinema and photography. I challenge that. Surely w…

- Ralph Gibson

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

- Ralph Gibson

I'm too impatient to use a tripod.

- Ralph Gibson

The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often make…

- Ralph Gibson

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the …

- Ralph Gibson

My enthusiasm for joining the New York Film Academy is predicated on my personal explorations into video as well as a sense of responsibility to shar…

- Ralph Gibson

It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during this peri…

- Ralph Gibson