When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them..

A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a ….

I just love the world of photography..

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new..

I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of film, miles of it.….

Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a v….

It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three..

Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot..

I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into my photographs beyond a mere recording. Yes, I'….

I don't really take myself very seriously..

The Fuhrer is always right. I sense it..

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you..

There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to find the task of p….

I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places….

'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other rather than interacting w….

As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers..

How can you hide from what never goes away?.

Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.].

It's my obligation to take out all the 'wrong' pictures..

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images..

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design..