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" All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. "
Them
Photographs
Truth
" Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same. "
Write
Artist
Paint
" Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art. "
You
Art
Level
" A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. "
Portrait
Knowledge
Picture
" Camera lies all the time. It's all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you... the moment you've made a choice, you're lying about something larger. 'Lying' is an ugly word. I don't mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same. "
Ugly
Camera
Choice
" Click! In other words, I'm in a very controlling position, and I can bring... and I've already... if the camera's on you, your face is very concentrated. You're listening. You don't know what I'm going to say next, and now you're smiling. All these things are the things I work with. "
Work
Words
Face
" Faces are the ledgers of our experience. "
Experience
Our
Faces
" How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people. "
Man
Children
Look
" I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas. "
Ideas
I Am
Always
" I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people. "
Tree
Window
I Can
" If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture? "
Picture
Possible
Soul
" I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. "
Eyes
Always
Alone
" I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer. "
Wanted
Never
Artist
" I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures. "
Feeling
Look
Pictures
" I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. "
I Think
Think
Art
" I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again. "
Accomplishment
People
World
" Just advertising departments with legs and high heels. "
High Heels
Legs
Advertising
" My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. "
Fair
Parents
Vanity
" My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. "
People
Than
Photograph
" People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs. "
Running
Hiding
People
" People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion. "
Confusion
Become
Beauty
" Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph. "
Try
Time
Real
" Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. "
Think
Sometimes
Me
" The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. "
Photograph
Opinion
Moment
" There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work. "
Fashion
Always
Work
" What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people. "
People
Children
Man
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