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Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.

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

When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.