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If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.

If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found.

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already – the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of.

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography - the mendacity of photography. It’s got to have some kind of peculiarity in it, or it’s not interesting to me.

If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button

If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.

If I had seven lives, I'd be a photographer in every one.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they created the kind of images that become iconic.

If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph.

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

I guess I'm adaptable. You know, I turn up at work and [photographers] can kind of do what they want with me, really.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's like saying, 'yeah, yeah, here I am!'

I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!

I have gradually confused photography with life.

I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

I know that sometimes the chemistry just isn't there between the model, photographer, hair and make-up. It's nobody's fault and you just have to do better next time.

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

I like boring things.

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

I laughed at the whole Cannes Film Festival thing because it didn't feel real. I remember getting off the red-eye when I arrived in France. I had a cowboy had on and some zit medicine, and there were like 15 photographers who jumped over the luggage carousel to take pictures of me.

I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.

Ill always be an amateur photographer.

I love photography. Photographers and photos. I took a ton of pictures in Paris, and I find that I'm most inspired by following other photographers on Instagram.

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.