I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.

A man's got to know his limitations.

Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity.

The sun rises, the sun falls, the wind blows and the birds sing no matter where you are. These are experiences that unite us all... something we can all enjoy together

Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.

No mortal ear could have heard the kelpie passing through the night, for the great black hooves of it were as soundless in their stride as feathers falling.

There is no sickness problem. There is simply a problem of the believer's coming to know his inheritance in Christ.

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.