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

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.

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.

I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.

Running up a steep hill or up steps are fantastic ways of building explosive strength.

I refuse to grow up. I won't become the adult guy.

Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life.

It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.

There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

I’m not short. I’m…vertically disadvantaged.

Every performance is different, but I try to approach them in the same way and give it my all.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.