Annie Quotes

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

I’d like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.

Our cemeteries are full of people who prayed to live.

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

Success breeds the excitement to continue going.

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.

All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.

What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms that we call worlds.

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate.

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?