I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

You cannot serve God without serving people

The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it.

I'm definitely trying to incorporate a Caribbean and reggae element.

I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi, Arkansas, and with them was brought blues and gospel music.

Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.