An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

Learn to be friendly and learn to welcome all people, but note however in doing so that it is not every hand that is stretched towards you that deserves your handshake!

We belong where we are most loved

Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.

...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

I would get very bored if I just did one thing.

I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.