I always said 'yes' to everything.

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.

One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.

We are all here to live our lives.

God strengthen and brighten your paths.

S’up?” he asks. My voice rattles when I answer. “N-not much. You know, reanimated corpses chasing me on a cruise ship. Same old.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!

Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?

Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.