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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.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

Art is difficult.

People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.