Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.

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.

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

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.

The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.

I was covered in gore, dripping in slime, and in a very bad mood.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.

You gotta think about your category, your replacement cycle, usage, how these things come together and the dynamics are different.

We're not all robots. There are emotions that creep in.

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world

What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.