Quotes on Photography

People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

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

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.