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The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

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.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.