Art accepts what it finds.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!

UNDAUNTED PURSUITSuccess, however measured, is the seat of a stool with three legs of determination, focus and resilience

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

I miss it: the smell of sand, sweat, and gunpowder, rings of salt from dried sweat on my pants’ legs, and around my waist just under where my armor sits.

But this bus was a bit too full. The driver only appeared to control the glass and metal around him. In reality, he was at the nose of a travelling paroxysm.

I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring.

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.

Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word ‘no’ mean to a child? Almost nothing.

I'm here to confuse you. Confusion is my right and left hook.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.