Quotes on Photographer

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.