I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

I believe in supremacy of God.

Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

Prospecting - Find the man with the problem.

That's the last order I'll ever give you Captain. Don't you dare ignore it.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

Never let hope elude you. That is life's biggest fumble.

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.