I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

Photography helps people to see.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

seeing a woman cough today made me sense a vague fear of death

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.

Joe DiMaggio was quite mean to Marilyn Monroe when they were married. But after she died, he did tend to her grave, which made up for it.

You are in my blood. I cant help it. We can't be anywhere except together

Drinking your own blood is the paradigm of recycling.

The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

Im so lucky, Ive been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.

By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.