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Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because... →
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.
I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face... →
My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature... →
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of... →
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping... →
People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum... →
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