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Quotes by Photographer
"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."
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"I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create."
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"The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is."
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"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
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"I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream."
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"A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population."
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"But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another."
"There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations."
"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now."
"It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!"
"If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art."
"The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative."
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."
"I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that."
"Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters."
"Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you."
"I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."
"What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them."
"All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in."
"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that."
"The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there."
Kids,
"You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America."
"I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer."
"The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart."
"I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting."
"Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful."
"I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so."
"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
"I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it."
"The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life."
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