I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn't want to ruin her for other men. - Dean

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

Make friends with nature by working in harmony with her and she will make friends with you.

Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.

Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.