Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.

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

I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone.

To focus energy on the less important things in life, hinder creating a solution to solve those problems that are of the most importance.

Death, it turns out, is the mother of all conflicts.

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.

Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.

The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to pump more money into the system.

You fainted," I told Tank. "I did not," Tank said. "That's a lie.

I want. . . a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.