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.

I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes

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.

The search for happiness has long been a dominant feature of American life. It's a byproduct of prosperity, not to mention the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.

I have a new saying, what I see in Vegas, I am telling everybody.

I dont fully understand my wifes emotions - and Im supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?

Stop making me feel good. If you are anti-Semitic, fine. If you don't like me personally, fine. But deal with me as an individual, not as a Jew.

Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.

I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.

A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.