Gesture is not always action.

If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.

If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.

Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one.

Photography is an act of love.

The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.

Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back.

You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.

Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.

In this day and age, it is the business that knows how to woo and win the hearts of its customers that will eventually win their pockets.

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

Bonds are guaranteed certificates of confiscation

Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.

You create the world, blink by blink. It is entirely yours to discover and yours to create.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.