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| "The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is." |
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| "I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it." |
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| "Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past." |
| "Photography used to be not for the faint of heart." |
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| "Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction." |
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| "I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point." |
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| "I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea." |
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| "Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny." |
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| "Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality." |
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| “Babies are my inspiration because of everything they represent, they change lives. The minute your baby's born, you're a dad or you're a mother. And they create families and they bring so much joy to the world.' |
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| "I wanted to portray them as beautiful young people, which is what they are." |
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| "There’s only goodness around babies and that’s what I’m fascinated by, it’s just human purity right there." |
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| "We're all products of what we want to project to the world." |
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| "I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy." |
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| ''The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told." |
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| "My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world." |
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| "I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment." |
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| "I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it" |
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| "My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain." |
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| "I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous" |
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| "Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats." |
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| "I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse." |
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| "You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw." |
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| "I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable." |
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| "My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph" |
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| "Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art." |
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| " I know of less than a dozen alive whose eyes I can trust even so much as my own.’ |
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| “Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.” |
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| “Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.” |
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| "A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one? " |
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| "I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent." |
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| "Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives " |
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| "I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist." |
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| "I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word." |
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| "I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer." |
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| "You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth." |
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| "I fight to take a good photograph every single time. " |
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| "A very subtle difference can make the picture or not. " |
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| "In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." |
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| "Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." |
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Bio American photographer Know for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City photographs of arch...
