Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

What is timea November leaf a child's vacillating mouth a rose a left-over, half-drunk glass of water.

The knowledge and reason speak, ignorance and error shout.

Now is always the hardest time to invest.

With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking the same kind of question?

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

Where there is no inner freedom, there is no life.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

There is enough reality in my life, so I try not to read things that have too much stress.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.