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.

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

You can't change the system through violence.

There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts.

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character

I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

There is wisdom to loving.

If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

Trust not too much to appearances