99 Quotes by Mary Ellen Mark

I realized all of the possibilities that could exist for me with my camera: all of the images that I could capture, all of the lives I could enter, all of the people I could meet and how much I could learn from them.

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.

In every successful still photographic project that I have completed, there has always been a turning point in the story where I felt that perhaps I was working on something that could be very special.

What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the basic emotions and feelings that we all experience.

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.