I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Working on photography is working on oneself.

I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

Photographing a cake can be art.

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Pretend that you are the soul inside everyone you meet.

Yesterday is gone, live for today and leave a legacy for tomorrow.

War was so simple, wasn't it? Much simpler than justice.

I couldn't hack it in Hollywood, my writing's wasn't bad enough.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

People who do well in life understand things that other people don't understand.

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.

If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other.

Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel — Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.

Our reputations do not come from how we talk about ourselves. Our reputations come from how others talk about us.