Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

Don't ever underestimate the importance of treating others with respect and kindness.

He was the ocean and I was the sand, i lived content in stillness and he washed a shore everytime, as a better man.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.

Negativity is born in the gap where love has been excluded.

That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.

People are only what we believe them to be.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just becomes creativity by committee, which is never good.

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.