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.
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.
I don't trust words. I trust pictures.
Photography is a love affair with life.
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.
Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Only photograph what you love.
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.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
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