I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

I am at war with the obvious.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

Philosophy defines our world. I see my life in terms of great words.

You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda.

Bravery means doing something scary.

Waiting and waiting and waiting... for somebody to reply... but nobody is going to reply.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention.

I said it jokingly, so this guy was just trying to stir something up that's not there. He's just somebody who doesn't have a sense of humor, like I do.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.