A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

I actually bedazzled when I was younger. I totally did that to my jeans.

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.