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"The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it’s going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they’re going to be."
"I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated."
"There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work."
"Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?"
"Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your previous work, and try to figure out what they can do to show a new side of you."
"Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake."
"Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible."
"Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices"
"I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand."
"True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists."
"A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living."
"Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard."
"My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years."
"Pop art is for everyone."
"Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it."
"Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept."
"Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her."
"Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture."
"The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace."
"Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive."
