I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.

Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.

The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.

At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . .

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

The red tape for family members who want to speak to a loved one is a reality, ... The warehousing of prisoners is a reality. ... All of this needs to be looked at, not just medical care.

The only way to live free, the only way to live your life as an offering of love, is to feel everything fully and live open.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

Perfect love is long delayed.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

Whatever you have to say, you say it from your heart.

If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?