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Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

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

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.

I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.

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.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not make a living by photography, but they are alive by it.

Life is once. Forever.

The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

I have a deep respect and love for these tiny humans, and I hope to convey in my images a measure of the beauty that exists in all children.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

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