And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.
Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down to it everyone is different.
What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.
The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.
I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.
If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is.
Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
The camera is a kind of license.
[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect
The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.
When you're growing up your mother says, "Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold." When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.
The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
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