Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

We do not know how life began.

Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

My only politics have been friendship.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.

Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses

I ain't calling me God. I'm just doing my part on where I think hip hop should go. I think hip hop should be about more money, crazier sounds, different beats.