A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Working on photography is working on oneself.

I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

Photographing a cake can be art.

I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

No matter how hard we try to separate, and if eventually we finally separate, we are just fooling around thinking we had parted, yet our hearts dwells where we cowardly believed we had left.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded.

Genius speaks only to genius.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.