I see no reason for recording the obvious.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

Ladies, being able to submit to your future husband requires a deeper trust in God who created him.

Apply analysis when appropriate, but keep it on a short leash when joy beckons.

I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about [Donald] Trump.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.

Instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves, as always.

It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.