I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction and destruction.

Prayer has to be fervent, intensive, passionate and from the heart.

A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.

I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.

What can I give Him, Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb. If I were a Wise Man I would do my part. Yet what can I give Him? I give Him my heart.

To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

You don't have to get in or out of a position all at once. Avoid the temptation of wanting to be completely right.

The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It's like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus.