I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.

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.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.

Somehow your heart still knows me.

You are waterI’m waterwe’re all water in different containersthat’s why it’s so easy to meetsomeday we’ll evaporate together.

Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal.

If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

It takes a certain kind of man to be in politics--a small one.

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.

I'm a girl in boy's clothing. I like to get a little rough. I prefer mud to makeup. That's me in a nutshell.