I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

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.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

Do not let a book get you in a reading slump

I'm sure I'll know it by the time I'm 80.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.

If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.

We don't have a refugee crisis in America; we have a racism crisis here.

I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.