I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

I am at war with the obvious.

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

You know, " I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here, " he said.

The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.

I could feel the tears streaming down my face—in some kind of frenzied competition with the rain. At first, I tried to brush the tears away, but I finally let them take their course, unabated.

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting.

I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.