I don’t believe in originality. You take inspiration from whatever moves you and you find your voice in those things.
If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
Keep going, no matter what.” --Reginald F. Lewis: Lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, Chairman, CEO ---
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.
Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
I looked real Neanderthal. I could have been Mexican, I could have been black; I could have been anything.
Life is like Tyra Bank’s left breast. It’s not right it’s not fair & still people loves it for what it is.
I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.
I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.
I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.
I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
