"Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers."
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"I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision."
"Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up."
"The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic."
"And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory."
"A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept."
"When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded."
"a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer."
"If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves."
"I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can"
"Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them."
"My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature."
"Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese."
"Beauty is a sign of intelligence."
"Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button."
"Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past."
"Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!"
"Publicity is like eating peanuts. Once you start you can’t stop."
"The camera cannot, but the photographer can."
"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything."