I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be so familiar to everyone that they don't immediately appreciate or value it.

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point.

You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.

The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.

Let's do this and this to see the consequences, who is real friend and who isn't. Who understands you and who doesn't!

...you have not only a very large portion of my affection and esteem, but all that I am capable of feeling...

I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.

Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.

John is a man of his word. And so am I.

I'm not just a fan of the really restored ones, the shiny ones. But I like the working man's cars.

I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going.

Real success is making art your whole life.

Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work together," and sometimes you never hear from them again.