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

One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty... absolute certainty.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases in late years, the discoveries of photography, of electric telegraphy, and of the planet Neptune through theoretical calculations, have all their rival claimants. It would seem, that discoveries are usually made when the time is ripe for them - that is to say, when the ideas from which they naturally flow are fermenting in the minds of many men.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

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.

My first thought is always of light.

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

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

People say photographs don't lie, mine do.

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

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