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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion ... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest ... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were
their pride, their strength, their spirit.

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.