#photography

"A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."

"Telephone pole wires get in the way of great photos. Communication always gets in the way of communication."

"Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter."

"We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer."

"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."

"I drift like a cloud,Across these venerable eastern lands,A journey of unfathomable distances,An endless scroll of experiences...Lady Zhejiang here we must part,For the next province awaits my embrace.Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East,Where do you go?"

"When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not."

"I can't throw away cologne because that is Nostalgia in a Bottle, the scent of yesterday, and it reminds me of her more clearly than her picture."

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

"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."

"Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation."

"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."