All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it.

In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.

I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.

If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the information that would have warned them to be cautious.

I turned to her, my whole body hard with tiredness and regret.

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

You haven't done the will of God when you have done it miserably.

I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?

When opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence.