You don't take a photograph, you make it.
I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.
