I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.

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

This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.

When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.

All things are photographable.

Let the world honor you, my Huntress. Live forever in the stars.

It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.