Photo Quotes Archive

"You are a photographer, and have spent much of every day drifting into the unfamiliar. When you're waiting for a train, you find yourself waking up into the same station you didn't know you were asleep in. Suddenly everything warrants at least a hmmm... The camera is an amnesiac, constantly, comically and tragically, looking at a new world, and its amnesia is contagious. "

"A picture, ready made, as easy as peristalsis. This is the corpse you're always fantasizing finding in the weeds when you're out shooting and the world doesn't show up, the abandoned Warhol in an alley, the K-Mart bursting into flames. Photographers dream in content."