A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing ... will win arguments and straighten people out.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

A lot of times, we're waiting for God to do what God is waiting for us to do.

I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.