Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

The Great law is God's commandment.

Shared beliefs and values form the heart of every successful relationship and ultimately determine its success.

Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

I really like the bohemian look, and I'm a great fan of mixing vintage and modern.

May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.