A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche.

most of the timesit’s the hardest to saywhat I love moreyouor your memory.

her smile was as beautiful as the only star in a dark night...

Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.

Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for.

I still have a Lydia Ko-signed golf ball in my sock drawer that I'll keep for a while.