Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture..

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure..

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace..

A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar..

Art and accident are one..

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities..

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection..

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it mak….

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them..

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible..

I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer..

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer..

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas..

Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices.

In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund.

In every photographer there is something of a stroller..

True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists..

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others..

You photograph with all your ideology..

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos..

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others..