I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it.

Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

I never prepare a speech. I never think when I give a speech, except for "don't embarrass yourself or others," meaning "remember the names of the people you have to thank."

My best Pictures are the ones I don’t understand.

When you go searching, you never know what you will find.

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

This is what I had always dreamed marriage would be... Everything was absolutely perfect... for three short days.

Never make a decision while in the state of anger.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here.

That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

love is like Someone is camping in your head

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.