I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.

The more you can forgive a person, the more you can love him.

Rape is something very obscene and this act must always be intervened by authorities, so victims will not end up suffering from a post traumatic disorder.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest.

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.

The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.

The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.