All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.

You mustn't let your emotions get the better of you. There is a great deal to be angry about, but anger doesn't change things.

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

You know, I've had my ups and downs.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

The American people don't want Obamacare. It has been forced on the American people, despite the fact that Democrats no longer control the House.

They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

Let us kill all lawyers