Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

A man's got to know his limitations.

Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.

Whatever befalls us, we will endure it together. I clutch my longbow and dagger close to my side. My last thoughts linger on my husband and my boy. I will not let harm come to either of them.

The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

When Satan knocks, I just send Christ to the door.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.

It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

I want them to believe I have a vision for the state of New Jersey.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

I like to read the ending first.

The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is