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Peace & Love

I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking photographs and suddenly know that you have resources from having looked at a lot of them before. There is no way you can avoid this. But this kind of subconscious influence is good, and it certainly can work for one. In fact, the more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer. - Robert Mapplethorpe

If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. - Robert Mapplethorpe

When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I’m human. It’s the same thing when I’m behind a camera. I forget I exist. - Robert Mapplethorpe

I prefer to photograph people and try to capture an emotion which can be universally understood. - Tina Manley

Composition is an essential part of a good photograph; photography as an art has no meaning without it. But craftsmanship is a means and not an end. Expression is the end. If composition is made the end, the result will be self-conscious, artificial and lifeless. Expression and composition are like life and body - a unity. Body by itself is a corpse. - Eric de Maré

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child. - Henri Matisse

A photographer's image is a symbol of love, and a portrait of art! - Cicero McLellan