Beware of too much taste as it leads to sterility.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.

A picture is the expression of an impression

We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

Oh thee! Lets fill my mind with joy of kindness to make joyful me.Let me see the sufferings and agony.Let me feel the sadness and misery.Still be kind to thee.

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.

Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile - Kamada Nakasato, 102-y/o-female fr. Okinawa

The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.

Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford.

I bet you’re really good with your hands, all that drawing and building.