Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.

Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.

Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.

I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.

Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?

Good taste is not the birthright of snobs, but a gift from God sometimes found in the unlikeliest of people".

We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush - one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.

In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.

I am recognizing that the voice inside my head Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind.

My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party.