From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.

It is not the outside of people that bothers me, but the inside.

To understand the journey you have to do the walking.

The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense.

There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

You should know what happens when you play with fire, Cahill. Eventually, you'll get burned.

The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.