I shut my eyes in order to see.
The earth is art, the photographer is only a witness.
I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
I didn’t write the rules. Why should I follow them?
Photography’s 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent moving furniture.
Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.
Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.
You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn’t waste either.
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.
Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
The pictures are there, and you just take them.
We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until i set him free.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Photography is a marvelous discovery, a science that has attracted the greatest intellects, and art that excites the most astute minds – and one that can be practiced by any imbecile.
Without vision, the photographer perishes.
A camera is a SAVE button for the mind’s eye.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
Photography is the story I fail to put into words.
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
