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Photography helps people to see.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

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.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.